{"id":394146,"date":"2024-11-18T00:42:13","date_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:42:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/static-structural-such-thing-as-centripetal-force\/"},"modified":"2024-11-18T00:42:13","modified_gmt":"2024-11-18T00:42:13","slug":"static-structural-such-thing-as-centripetal-force","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/static-structural-such-thing-as-centripetal-force\/","title":{"rendered":"Static Structural: Such thing as Centripetal Force?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;I need to apply a centri<strong>petal<\/strong> force to a compressor blade to do a hot-to-cold correction.&lt;br&gt;I&#8217;ve been exploring the GUI and looking online, but from my searching, it seems that this is not possible within Static Structural.&lt;br&gt;The closest load available is the &#8220;Rotational Velocity&#8221; but that is centri<strong>fugal<\/strong> in nature.&lt;br&gt;Is there a way to invert the effect of &#8220;Rotational Velocity&#8221; so that it pushes the structure inwards (&#8220;petal&#8221;) as oppossed to outward (&#8220;fugal&#8221;)?&lt;br&gt;Maybe there is a way to specify this with a user-defined load (if that exists)?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;ve done this before but with MSC Nastran by scaling an RFORCE card by -1 using a LOAD entry.&lt;br&gt;If Static Structural can&#8217;t do this, would it be possible to load BDF inputs and OP2\/HDF5 outputs into Workbench as external models that can be piped into a Modal Analysis?&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-394146","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-static-structural","topic-tag-turbo-machinery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":["155.31.88.170"],"_btv_view_count":["197"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_subscription":["20905","484377"],"_bbp_topic_id":["394146"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27796"],"_bbp_engagement":["20905","479326","484377"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["394990"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["394990"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-11-22 15:20:30"]},"test":"ferranj2my-erau-edu"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/394146","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\/394146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}