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[rrathishubham]

Hello everyone I'm trying to apply nodal pressure on my structure. But I can't see in which direction the load is being applied. How can I know the direction of loading of nodal pressure?

[peteroznewman]

1) Why nodal pressure?  Why not apply the pressure to the face of the geometry?

2) Is the element a solid element or a shell element?

[rrathishubham]

Hello sir 1. I don't know how to apply pressure on the face of the geometry. How can I apply pressure to the face of geometry?
2. I have 2 model in which 1 is shell model and the other is solid model.

[peteroznewman]

Which software are you using, Mechanical Workbench or Mechanical APDL?

In Workbench, after you have geometry, you bring it into the Mechanical program and you can apply a pressure load to a face on the geometry.

When you do that, it will show an arrow. You can change the sign on the pressure to make the arrow point in the opposite direction.

[Dhore]

By default the nodal pressure is oriented along the surface normal if you give it a positive magnitude, and vice-versa. You can check the direction of the surface normal that you are using to create the nodal named selection.

Hope that helps!!