Hello everybody! Before starting, I'd like to preface that I'm a thesis student and ANSYS APDL is a new world for me. However, let me show you what my problem is.
I have 11 link elements, joined together to form a cable. I want to simulate the shortening of this cable, applying a negative temperature (linear thermal contraction for everyone of link element). I would apply the total load in a certain number of substep. In addition, for every substep my code has to:
- apply a costant thermal negative load at every link element
- calculate the axial stress of every link element
- modify the thermal load until all LINK180 elements have the same axial stress (in a range)
- re-apply the new correct thermal load
- continue with a new loadstep and apply a new costant thermal load
- continue this procces until the cable achieves a final shortened length
I tried to do this with tables: I have a table for every link elements and every table has 2 columns, the fist one is time, the second one contains thermal loads' values. Here below you can find main pieces of the code.
At now it doesn't work, maybe because there is a first bigger do-loop (with a solve command) and inside it, a second do-loop with a new solve command, or maybe because I need to pass
continuously from /solu to /post1 and vice versa.
Every suggest will be precious, thank you in advance.
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