Reply To: Nodal acceleration from transient structural apdl

[Avnish Pandey]

Hi Lawal,

The commnads look fine. Try plotting the acceleration as well.

To determine the contact forces, you can select the contact elements, followed by selecting the associated nodes and then extracting the nodal forces using the commands given below:

/POST1

set,last

ESEL,s,ename,,CONTA171     !select contact elements either by ename or type
NSLE,s
ESLN,s
NFORCE

You can also explore GUI options to track contact behavior in APDL.

https://ansyshelp.ansys.com/account/secured?returnurl=/Views/Secured/corp/v241/en/ans_ctec/Hlp_ctec_guiaids.html