{"id":164191,"date":"2021-11-22T15:36:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-22T15:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/incremental-force-in-static-structural\/"},"modified":"2021-11-23T14:50:54","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T14:50:54","slug":"incremental-force-in-static-structural","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/incremental-force-in-static-structural\/","title":{"rendered":"Incremental Force in Static Structural"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>Hello,<\/p>\n<p>I am very new to FE modeling, and I&#039;m sure that this is a basic question. However, after a search of the forum and Youtube, I am unable to find what I need. I am confident that there are many solutions to the following issue that I am having &#8211; so I would be grateful for anyone that can point me in the direction of a tutorial(s) or post(s) (I&#039;m probably using the wrong keywords when doing my searches). OR, if it is easier to give instructions in the response to this post, I&#039;m fine with that, too.<\/p>\n<p>I have a model of a structure in a lab test, and it was incrementally loaded in compression (by ~0.01 kN at each increment). The lab specimen was outfitted with numerous strain gauges, and the strains were recorded at each load increment. I&#039;m trying to run a simulation in static structural to compare the strains at the various loading increments with the output of the strain gauges (elastic region only).<\/p>\n<p>There are over 300 load increments, so I cannot reasonably enter each by hand. However, I have an excel spreadsheet with each recorded load increment.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a way that I can upload these load increments to my model all at once, so that I don&#039;t have to do each one individually? I would prefer to be able to input the load data on my otherwise completed model, click the &quot;solve&quot; button one time, and have it run the simulation and report the recorded strains at the various strain probe locations for all of the load increments.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks ahead of time for any help that you can provide!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-164191","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_old_reply_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_reply_anonymous_id":["false"],"_btv_view_count":["3520"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["164191"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["17821","191153"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["198358"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["198358"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-11-23 14:50:54"]},"test":"wgraves2gmu-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/164191\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=164191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}