Can you help me how to use velocity dependent loading? I read some article, for loading use General Static. Thanks so much.

Dear Mona,

Since the beam has one fourth symmetry (it is assumed that beam has been modeled with solid elements), apply symmetry boundary condition on all the nodes lying on the plane of symmetry. It means apply constraint along normal to plane of symmetry (translation only). At one end, apply simply supported boundary condition (at the edge where beam is supported). And at another end (near symmetry plane), apply load that creates bending load (on the edge depending upon the location of load with respect to plane of symmetry).

Regards,

Chandrashekhar

Thanks a lot for your answer . Actually I use solid element for beam. But I don't know how define load on this beam. for example in some article use general static and other that use dynamic explicit and when I run .cae file, the software gives me errors.The error is " time increment is less than the minimum specified".Would you please give me a model that guide me?