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April 1, 2024 at 4:41 pm
Avnish Pandey
Ansys Employee

Hi Bolaji,

Contact forces can be determined under both /POST1, the general post processor and /POST26, time-history post processor.

CNCHECK command will give you the information about the existing contact/target pairs. You need to know the REAL and TYPE attributes of the contact/target elements.

You can use LSWRITE command to store data for each load step. You can check below forum discussions for more information on scripting for different load steps.

/forum/forums/topic/creating-multiple-static-load-steps-in-apdl-loading-unloading-simulation/

/forum/forums/topic/how-to-store-fsum-command-for-each-load-step-into-an-excel-file/

 

 

 

 

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