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Structural Nonlinearities
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Workshop 2B: Performing a Restart
Goal
Use Restart Control technology to resume an unconverged solution
after making necessary adjustments to remedy the nonconvergence
Model Description
Same as Workshop 2A p
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Workshop 2B: Performing a Restart
Continuing with same model from
Workshop 2A, highlight the Force
load and increase the magnitude to
350N. 350N.
From Analysis Settings, open Restart
Controls and request all substeps be saved
as restart points.
E t S l
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Execute a new Solve
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Workshop 2B: Performing a Restart
After a few warnings, errors and bisections, the run fails to converge.
Review the Solution Information Solver Output and Force Convergence plot
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E i th S l O t t t t
Workshop 2B: Performing a Restart
Examine the Solver Output text
Note the warnings and errors recorded early in the run that indicate excessive
element distortion and recommend more substeps as one possible remedy.
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R ll th t th d f lt f St C t l
Workshop 2B: Performing a Restart
Recall that the default for Step Control was
used
For this application, with large deflection
turned ON, this resulted in the solver ,
automatically trying to solve this problem with
one substep initially, allowing up to 10
(maximum) if necessary.
Towards the end of the run, the Automatic
Time Stepping program had reduced the
timestep size down to the minimum value
(0 10) Therefore no further adjustment (0.10). Therefore, no further adjustment
downward is available.
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Return to Analysis Settings
set Restart Type to Manual
set Current Restart Point to the last successfully
converged subset (Loadstep 1 Substep 5) converged subset (Loadstep 1, Substep 5)
A logical first attempt to remedy this A logical first attempt to remedy this
nonconvergence would be to simply enlarge the
time step range from the default values.
Turn Auto Time Stepping ON and adjust the range as
shown
10 is a reasonable value to restart initially
100 is just a guess based on experience.
The range is highly problem dependent. Other g g y p p
models might require many more substeps.
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After making these changes e ec te the restart
Workshop 2B: Performing a Restart
After making these changes, execute the restart.
Highlight the Solution information Branch and
monitor the Force Convergence monitor the Force Convergence
Notice the additional bisections that lead to a
different convergence pattern and ultimately a
successfully completed run
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R i th t d di l t
Workshop 2A: Large Deflection
Review the stress and displacement
results as before.
Also confirm that the full load is Also confirm that the full load is
reacted out at the fixed support
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For comparison, clear the generated data and re-
solve the model from the beginning.
Notice the model now solves with only one bisection
and in only 41 iterations cutting the run time (by and in only 41 iterations, cutting the run time (by
more then 50%!) underscoring the importance of
taking advantage of auto time stepping technology
with a sufficient range in nonlinear problems.
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