How can I find bad elements in an unconverging nonlinear solid117 model in Simulation 10.0?
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The BH curves may not be the problem. When I run your model I get pivot messages which is unusual. I converted all the elements which use BH curves to air and got some B values as high as 7 in element 220487. This element is very thin and is probably causing your convergence problems, because it uses a BH curve (material 26.) Since mesh checking is not done in Workbench it will probably be necessary for you to do something like this "air test" before running your real properties, just to check for very badly shaped elements. You could also use the mesh metric in FEModeler to determine the area to volume ratio for elements in different parts of the model. |
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