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[dateran4]

hello community I hope you can help me with this problem I am analyzing the friction contact in transient structural with commands and when inciar the simulation this error appears

 

*** ERROR ***                           CP =       0.858   TIME= 20:241
 Element type 1 is not the same shape as SOLID226.  Switching to a      
 different shape is not allowed while elements of type 1 exist.         


 NUMBER OF WARNING MESSAGES ENCOUNTERED=          0
 NUMBER OF ERROR   MESSAGES ENCOUNTERED=          1



 ***** PROBLEM TERMINATED BY INDICATED ERROR(S) OR BY END OF INPUT DATA *****

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Release: Release 19.0       Build: 19.0       Update: UP20171214   Platform: WINDOWS x64
Date Run: 07/03/2019   Time: 20:24     Process ID: 5428
Operating System: Windows 7 Service Pack 1 (Build: 7601)

Processor Model:        Intel(R) Core(TM) i5-2410M CPU @ 2.30GHz

Compiler: Intel(R) FORTRAN Compiler Version 15.0.7  (Build: 20160518)
          Intel(R) C/C++ Compiler Version 15.0.7  (Build: 20160518)
          Intel(R) Math Kernel Library Version 2017.0.2 Product Build 20170126

Number of machines requested            :    1
Total number of cores available         :    4
Number of physical cores available      :    2
Number of processes requested           :    2
Number of threads per process requested :    1
Total number of cores requested         :    2 (Distributed Memory Parallel)              
MPI Type: INTELMPI
MPI Version: Intel(R) MPI Library 2017 Update 3 for Windows* OS


GPU Acceleration: Not Requested

Job Name: file0
Input File: dummy.dat

  Core                Machine Name   Working Directory
 

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     0                  Usuario-PC   C:SIMULIA_ProjectScratchScr672D
     1                  Usuario-PC   C:SIMULIA_ProjectScratchScr672D
 
Latency time from master to core     1 =    1.082 microseconds
 
Communication speed from master to core     1 =  3335.75 MB/sec

Total CPU time for main thread                    :        0.7 seconds
Total CPU time summed for all threads             :        1.2 seconds

Elapsed time spent pre-processing model (/PREP7)  :        0.0 seconds
Elapsed time spent solution - preprocessing       :        0.0 seconds
Elapsed time spent computing solution             :        0.0 seconds
Elapsed time spent solution - postprocessing      :        0.0 seconds
Elapsed time spent post-processing model (/POST1) :        0.0 seconds
 

Maximum total memory used                         :       79.0 MB
Maximum total memory allocated                    :      614.0 MB
Total physical memory available                   :          8 GB

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[jj77]

solid 226 is 20 node hex element - the element type 1 you have, so your mesh, might be different to that -perhaps you have tet4 or hex8 or wedges also, and not hex20 element.

 

You would need to have a mesh of only higher order brick elements (20 node hex.) in order to use/switch to the soild226 - if you do not have these elements then you cannot switch