{"id":442118,"date":"2025-09-23T22:02:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T22:02:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/one-way-thermal-structural-using-load_thermal_binout\/"},"modified":"2025-09-24T03:50:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T03:50:12","slug":"one-way-thermal-structural-using-load_thermal_binout","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/one-way-thermal-structural-using-load_thermal_binout\/","title":{"rendered":"One-way Thermal Structural using Load_Thermal_Binout"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hello, I am trying to create an example model to represent the workflow for a one-way thermal mechanical model where I run the thermal part first to basically map a temperature field to a body.&nbsp; &nbsp;secondly, I want to transfer this temperature field to the structural step so the stiffness of the structure is altered by this temperature field.&nbsp; &nbsp;I want to ask about the load_thermal_binout file.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;1) if I run in SMP, can I not use load_thermal_binout?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;2) if I run in MPP, I have a binout file by default.&nbsp; &nbsp;However, when I load the data, the solver just crashes with no messages&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;3) below is the exact keyword I used but maybe I have an issue with the alignment of time steps. &#8230;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;*LOAD_THERMAL_BINOUT&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;$# deftemp&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;&nbsp; &nbsp; 273.15&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;$# &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;filename&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;thermalstep.binout0000&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;$ $ &nbsp; startt &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; tsf &nbsp; &nbsp;tmpoff &nbsp; &nbsp;nidoff&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;$&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;0&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;1.0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 0.0 &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; 0&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt; &lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-442118","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27814"],"_bbp_topic_id":["442118"],"_bbp_author_ip":["2601:447:c17f:9600:4870:f276:9bae:234"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["443321"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["443321"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-10-08 15:59:19"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["1"],"_bbp_engagement":["480261"],"_btv_view_count":["125"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_subscription":["480261"],"_edit_last":["480261"],"_bbp_revision_log":["a:1:{i:442125;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:480261;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}}"]},"test":"64872acced255c930764e49420794aef51a32d56"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/442118","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/442118\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":442125,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/442118\/revisions\/442125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=442118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}