{"id":168137,"date":"2022-04-05T11:42:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T11:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/death-of-elements-of-two-different-body-selections-in-two-time-steps\/"},"modified":"2022-04-13T11:44:49","modified_gmt":"2022-04-13T11:44:49","slug":"death-of-elements-of-two-different-body-selections-in-two-time-steps","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/death-of-elements-of-two-different-body-selections-in-two-time-steps\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of elements of two different body selections in two time-steps"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>Hi everyone,<\/p>\n<p>I try to use the inbuilt element birth and death functionality in Ansys mechanical enterprise to kill the elements of two different bodies in two timestep operation but couldn&#039;t. It seems not more than one analysis (either to kill the element or make them alive) can be performed on the current time step. When I try to include another element birth and death functionality, it will capture the same time step that was put in earlier, and hence wouldn&#039;t run on a second time step. Please see figures below to illustrate this better.<\/p>\n<p>I try performing element death on the highlighted portion in the first time step as shown below. But when I try performing another element death operation on the next portion (underneath) and changed the current step to 2, the first one I previously set was also changed to 2. As such, I am not able to perform separate death operation on the two time steps for the two portions. Can you please suggest what I can do to enable me perform this operation for these portions using the two different time-steps.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you.<\/p>\n<p>Regards,<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel<\/p>\n<div class=\"embedExternal embedImage\">\n<div class=\"embedExternal-content\">\n<a class=\"embedImage-link\" href=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/049\/NBGSARWUUR1B.png\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" class=\"embedImage-img\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/forum-uploads\/049\/NBGSARWUUR1B.png\" alt=\"image.png\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-168137","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-mechanical","topic-tag-element-birth-and-death","topic-tag-time-steps-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_btv_view_count":["753"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_subscription":["252280"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["168137"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["174388","252280"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["12"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["210832"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["210832"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-04-13 11:44:49"]},"test":"ukwuomakalugmail-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/168137","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\/168137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}