Re: Rotating force

You know of course you can only apply force to nodes. Are you saying you 
want your force to
jump from node-to-node in some fashion? Or is the ring rotating and the 
force just following?



At 05:29 AM 10/21/04, you wrote:



>Hi all,
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>i would like to do the following:
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>i've modelled a circular ring using beam elements. What i would like
>to do now is a dynamic analysis in which a force is applied to the
>ring in the radially inward direction, which rotates around the ring
>with a constant velocity. Does anybody have a clue how to do this?
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>Thanks in advance,
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