Reply To: How to carry out a transient analysis following on from a static analysis in ANSYS Mechanical APDL?

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Thank you for your response, I am very grateful for you help. Deactivating transient effects for the load steps that need to be static works effectively for the simulations I am currently running; however, in the near future I will be developing and running simulations that again require multiple static analysis load steps followed by a transient analysis step, but with piezoelectric and CIRCU94 elements defined within the model. I understand that CIRCU94 elements are only applicable to full harmonic and transient analyses and cannot be used in a static analysis or in a transient analysis with time integration effects turned off.
Bearing in mind the restrictions for CIRCU94 elements, do you have any suggestions as to how I can perform the static analysis on the structure first and then perform a transient analysis on the deformed structure without using the TIMINT command? I will also be using ANSYS Mechanical APDL for the coupled structural-piezoelectric-circuit simulations. Thank you.