Mechanical APDL Structural Analysis Guide

Figure 1: Rotated Configuration Resulting from Sequentially Applied Rotations

A.2.2. Simultaneously Applied Rotations

The following input illustrat es compound rotations imposed over a single load step with all components
applied together.

Example 3: Simultaneously Applied Rotations

/prep7

!parameters

pi=3.1415926536

!element type definitions

et,1,188 !beam element

!node definitions

n,1,0.,0.,0.

n,2,0.,0.,0.6

!material properties

mp,ex,1,2.01e11 !young's modulus for steel

mp,nuxy,1,0.3 !poisson's ratio

!section properties

sectype,1,beam,rect

secdata,0.1,0.2 !beam cross-section

!element definitions

type,1

mat,1

real,1

secnum,1

en,1,1,2

finish

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Sample Inputs for Imposed Rotations