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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical How to create a force displacement graph on APDL for an arch in static analysis? Reply To: How to create a force displacement graph on APDL for an arch in static analysis?

dlooman
Ansys Employee

If you used an arbitrary load step time of 1.0 we know the force will be 5000 N. times time.  Here is a way to make a force deflection plot in post26.  Use the /axlab command to create axes descriptions.

/post26

nsol,2,1574,uy  ! Displacement

xvar,2               ! Make Displacement the x axis

prod,3,1,,, ,,,5000   ! Variable 3 is time (variable 1 by default) times 5000

plvar,3             ! Plot force vs displacement

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