Body Force
This command is used to define the following
- Acceleration,
- Angular Acceleration,
- Angular velocities,
- Centrifugal forces.
Description
- Body Force can be applied on bodies.
- Body Force can be applied with respect to a local coordinate system.
- The centrifugal force option is used to apply centrifugal force about the specified axis. This is supported only for Abaqus.
- For Abaqus, Body force can be applied on mass elements by selecting mass from LBC browser.
Cards supported for various solvers
| Solver | Supported Cards |
|---|---|
| OptiStruct / Nastran | ACCEL2, RFORCE TABLED1, DLOAD, TLOAD1 {if Amplitude table is defined} |
| Abaqus | *DLOAD (CENTRIF, ROTA, GRAV) |
| Permas | $INERTIA GRAVITY, $INERTIA ROTATION |
| Ansys | CMACEL, CMDOMEGA, CMOMEGA |
| Marc | DIST LOAD |
| ADVC | $GravityAcceleration, $CentrifugalLoad |
| AcuSolve | BODY_FORCE, GRAVITY |
| RADIOSS | /GRAV |