{"id":165326,"date":"2023-03-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/can-you-use-the-ekill-command-within-a-modal-analysis\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:31:02","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:31:02","slug":"can-you-use-the-ekill-command-within-a-modal-analysis","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/can-you-use-the-ekill-command-within-a-modal-analysis\/","title":{"rendered":"Can you use the EKILL command within a modal analysis?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No.  The EKILL command may be used in static and nonlinear transient analyses where the Newton-Raphson solver option is set to full explicitly in the first load step.  In Ansys, modal analyses are linear by definition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-165326","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4431","topic-tag-apdl","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-mechanical-apdl","topic-tag-modeling-and-meshing","topic-tag-structural-mechanics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["3\/15\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27789"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.56.168.180"],"_btv_view_count":["739"],"siebel_km_number":["367104"],"product_version":["17"],"km_published_date":["2005-01-01T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Structural Mechanics"],"application_name":["Mechanical APDL"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/165326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/165326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}