{"id":32943,"date":"2019-01-29T10:27:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-29T10:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/cyclic-loading-from-ansys-workbench\/"},"modified":"2019-01-29T10:27:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-29T10:27:21","slug":"cyclic-loading-from-ansys-workbench","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/cyclic-loading-from-ansys-workbench\/","title":{"rendered":"Cyclic loading from ANSYS Workbench"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am using ANSYS Workbench to perform a cyclic loading test of a reinforced concrete column.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As showing in figure 1, there are two loads: vertical and lateral, according to the experimental, the vertical load is a force controlled considered to be constant during the test, and the lateral is applied as a displacement controlled represent the cyclic loading.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I would like to know how can I applied a constant value for the vertical load, with using a multiple number of steps (in order to define the cycles of the second load).<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Figure 2 shows the cycles used in the experimental.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>How can I applied this load?. Is the method showed in figure 1 correct?, or should I input zero between the positive and negative values.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Finally, to validate the model I need to compare the experimental force-displacement curve of the experimental test (figure 3) to that of numerical.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>How can I obtained the force-displacement curve from ANSYS Workbench?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/fd92907f-7488-4ce9-8baf-a97300aa8490\/84eb8531-4a71-4ff0-bad2-a9e400b43cc3_col.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"> &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/fd92907f-7488-4ce9-8baf-a97300aa8490\/22a03f77-c7e3-41aa-bff6-a9e400ab1b0b_loading.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"Figure 1\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/fd92907f-7488-4ce9-8baf-a97300aa8490\/6f3d084c-71e5-46f5-b4b4-a9e400ab33fb_cyclic-response.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"Figure 2\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-32943","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["5115"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["5375"],"_bbp_subscription":["267373"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["32943"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","159332","160648","161815","167425","168117","171663","267373"],"_bbp_voice_count":["8"],"_bbp_reply_count":["17"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["240402"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["240402"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-11-10 17:23:42"]},"test":"amin"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/32943","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\/32943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}