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dlooman
Ansys Employee

The DERIV command is a time-history postprocessor (POST26) command and couldn't be used to apply forces.  The damping in a spring (COMBI14) could be used to apply a force proportional to the derivative of displacement.  It would probably require a macro to create the springs at tons of nodes though.