Multiple Static Load Steps in APDL Editor

- July 16, 2021 at 10:46 am
  
  JoeMant
  Subscriber
  
  Hello,
  I am trying to simulate a tensile test on a NL material in Mechanical APDL. I'd like to have multiple substeps on the transition linear-nonlinear zone, so I divided the imposed displacement into 2 substeps: [t: 0.0, u: 0.0; t:1.0, u: 0.5; t: 3.0, u: 1.0]
  My problem is that the first 10 substeps of the second load step are fixed at u=0.5. How can I solve this?
  Attached below, the Code I'm using and the results I get from Ansys (I'm using a linear material in this simulation) :
- July 22, 2021 at 3:21 pm
  
  Govindan Nagappan
  Ansys Employee
  
  You are solving for time=2 without changing the load. So the load stays at 0.5
  Instead, for load step2, set time to 3
  define your load and solve
  !load step2
  time,3
  DCUM,....
  
  Or consider defining a table to apply the load