Distributed Force load

Use the Distributed Force command to create surface and edge tractions from force and moment components that you define at a point in space. The resulting force is distributed to your selected surface or edge region as a traction. For more information on the computation of this traction, see Distributed force to a surface or edge.

You can use a distributed force, for example, to represent the total load at a point from test data. You can make the distributed force time-assigned by defining it using time-dependent fields.

Where do I find it?

Application	Pre/Post
Prerequisite	A Simulation file as the work part and displayed partSimcenter Nastran or Simcenter 3D Multiphysics as the specified solverSOL 401 Multi-Step Nonlinear (Simcenter Nastran) or Multi-Step Nonlinear (Multiphysics) as the specified solution
Command Finder	Distributed Force

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