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## Loading

All loading, except residual stresses, must be specified within a step. Its magnitude can be modified by a time dependent amplitude history using the *AMPLITUDE keyword. This makes sense for nonlinear static, nonlinear dynamic and modal dynamic procedures only. Default loading history is a ramp function for *STATIC procedures and step loading for *DYNAMIC and *MODAL DYNAMIC procedures.

Subsections

- Point loads
- Facial distributed loading
- Centrifugal distributed loading
- Gravity distributed loading
- Temperature loading
- Initial(residual) stresses