Mechanical APDL Basic Analysis Guide - Ansys

Chapter 5: Solution
/solu
antyp,,rest,1,3 !Restart the analysis at load step 1,
!substep 3
solve
rescontrol,file_summary
finish
/post1
set,last
prnsol
presol
finish
The sample input listing below shows how to terminate a load step at a particular substep, then continue
with the next load step.
/solu
antype,,rest,1,3,endstep !End load step 1 at substep 3
!when time (load factor) = 0.6125
!ldstep = 1, substep = 3, load
solve !execute ENDSTEP, loads are
!rescaled to time = 0.6125
rescontrol,file_summary
bfe,1,temp,1,2 !apply higher loads,
bfe,2,temp,1,6
solve !execute solve to advance load
!factor from previous
!time = 0.6125 to time = 1.6125
/post1
set,last
presol
finish
The sample input listing below shows how to restart an analysis with old and new parameters.
/title, Multiframe Restart with Tabular Load.
/prep7
et,1,42 ! Build model
n,1,0.0,0.0
n,2,0.0,0.5
n,3,0.0,1.0
n,4,1.0,0.0
n,5,1.0,0.5
n,6,1.0,1.0
e, 1,4,5,2
e, 2,5,6,3
mp,ex,1,1000.0
mp,nuxy,1,0.3
mp,alpx,1,1.e-4
d,1,all
d,2,ux,0.0
d,3,ux,0.0
d,4,uy,0.0
*dim,ftbl,table,4,1,,time ! Make tabular point load
ftbl(1,0)=1,2,3,4
ftbl(1,1)=2.5,5.0,7.5,10.0
nsel,all
f,all,fx,%ftbl% ! Apply it to all nodes
flist
/solu
rescont,,all,all ! Save all substeps for possible restart
nlgeo,on
time,4
DELTIM,1
outres,all,all
solve ! Solve with point loads and the *.RDB file is saved
! at the moment. The parameterized tabular point load
! FTBL is also saved into *.RDB
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