{"id":380026,"date":"2024-08-23T14:58:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-exert-force-on-bunch-of-nodes-in-global-direction-at-transient-analysis\/"},"modified":"2024-08-23T14:58:00","modified_gmt":"2024-08-23T14:58:00","slug":"how-to-exert-force-on-bunch-of-nodes-in-global-direction-at-transient-analysis","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-exert-force-on-bunch-of-nodes-in-global-direction-at-transient-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"How to exert force on bunch of nodes in global direction at transient analysis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;I am doing transient analysis. I want to exert time varying forces on each nodes of a surface in global Z direction (not nodal direction) during simulation.&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;My forces are calulated and nested on a vector (array) which the location of the values in the array relates to the node numbers.&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I want to know how is it possible through ANSYS apdl commands without using a do loop? (simply by <strong>F<\/strong> command)&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-380026","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-applied-force"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["29421","447012"],"_bbp_author_ip":["128.199.133.247"],"_btv_view_count":["155"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["380026"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["29421","447012"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["380357"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["380357"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-08-25 23:49:03"]},"test":"mehdi-bghgmail-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/380026","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\/380026\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}