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Hereby a very short example of using restart in the same data set. It’s a little more tricky if you want to use 2 different data sets and restart with the read option. First moving the end of the bar in the x-direction and afterwards from this new position in the z-direction
*NODE
1,1,0,0
2,1,100,0
3,0,100,0
4,0,0,0
5,1,0,1
6,1,100,1
7,0,100,1
8,0,0,1
9,1,50,0
10,0.5,100,0
11,0,50,0
12,0.5,0,0
13,1,50,1
14,0.5,100,1
15,0,50,1
16,0.5,0,1
17,1,0,0.5
18,1,100,0.5
19,0,100,0.5
20,0,0,0.5
*Nset, Nset=fixed
1,12,4,20,8,16,5,17
*Nset, Nset=moved
2,10,3,19,7,14,6,18
*ELEMENT,TYPE=C3D20, ELSET=Eall
1,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12
13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20
*SOLID SECTION, ELSET=Eall, Material=Steel_S355
**======== Steel_S355 ========
*Material, Name=Steel_S355
*DENSITY
8500.0
*ELASTIC, TYPE=ISO
210E9,0.3
*Restart, write
*STEP, Nlgeom, inc=100
*STATIC
0.2, 1, 1E-05, 0.2
*Boundary
fixed,1,3,0
moved,1,1,5
*NODE FILE
U,RF
*El file
S, E
*END STEP
*Restart
*STEP, Nlgeom, inc=100
*STATIC
0.2, 1, 1E-05, 0.2
*Boundary
fixed,1,3,0
moved,3,3,5
*NODE FILE
U,RF
*El file
S, E
*END STEP