{"id":344951,"date":"2024-01-16T15:51:12","date_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:51:12","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/thermal-load-workbench-mechanical-apdl\/"},"modified":"2024-01-16T15:51:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T15:51:12","slug":"thermal-load-workbench-mechanical-apdl","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/thermal-load-workbench-mechanical-apdl\/","title":{"rendered":"Thermal load &#8211; Workbench &#8211; Mechanical APDL"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear all,&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>I have done a transient thermal analysis and the results are being used as body forces on a static structural analysis.<\/p>\n<p>However I need to use the thermal loads as a temperature variation from timestep(i) &#8211; timestep(i-1), for instance in timestep 10 i want the thermal load to be equal to the [temperature in timestep(10) &#8211; the temperature in timestep (9)]<\/p>\n<p>I have been using the following APDL code:<\/p>\n<p>*Do, iCalc, 1, 50, 2<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;AllSel, All, All<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;BfCum, Temp, Repl<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;LdRead, Temp, iCalc, , , , C:\\xxxxxx&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Solve<br \/>*Enddo<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone know how to do this?<\/p>\n<p>Thank you<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-344951","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansysworkbench-ansys-staticstructural","topic-tag-Analysisstatic-thermal-static-1","topic-tag-apdl","topic-tag-mechanical","topic-tag-transient-structural"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["170992","20905"],"_bbp_author_ip":["96.7.74.173"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["2153"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["344951"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["20905","170992"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["7"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["354639"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["354639"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-02-29 16:51:27"]},"test":"alex1edp"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/344951","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\/344951\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=344951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}