July 21, 2023 at 7:52 am
Anand V
Subscriber

Hello Nanda,

There are only 16951 nodes and 3444 elements whereas the Student license permits upto 100,000 nodes.

Yes! the solver file shows several similar errors, one of which I have copied and pasted here below.


 *** ERROR ***                           CP =       7.438   TIME= 16:06:21
 Element 2980 (type = 2, SOLID186) (and maybe other elements) has become
 highly distorted.  Excessive distortion of elements is usually a       
 symptom indicating the need for corrective action elsewhere.  Try      
 incrementing the load more slowly (increase the number of substeps or  
 decrease the time step size).  You may need to improve your mesh to    
 obtain elements with better aspect ratios.  Also consider the behavior 
 of materials, contact pairs, and/or constraint equations.  Please rule 
 out other root causes of this failure before attempting rezoning or    
 nonlinear adaptive solutions.  If this message appears in the first    
 iteration of first substep, be sure to perform element shape checking. 
 *** LOAD STEP     1   SUBSTEP     1  NOT COMPLETED.  CUM ITER =      3
 *** BEGIN BISECTION NUMBER   1    NEW TIME INCREMENT=  0.17500E-01

"REASON FOR TERMINATION. . . . . . . . . .ERROR IN ELEMENT FORMULATION           
 RESTART BY RE-RUNNING THE ANALYSIS