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  1. DarrenDM

    Large Truss - Extremely large stresses and deflections

    Thank you Mustaine3 for your continued help with my Abaqus queries, you have been of considerable help in my previous thread posts. I have corrected the Youngs Modulus to 2e12 (200 GPa in Pa) - can't believe I made this error continuously! I seem to now have realistic output results, much...
  2. DarrenDM

    Large Truss - Extremely large stresses and deflections

    Hi there, I'm trying to model a large truss (~180m span) with pin supports and cantilever ends however I am getting huge stresses and deflections in my results output under Gravity loading. All units have been checked and are appropriate (m, N, kg, s, Pa, J, kg/m3) In this model, I have...
  3. DarrenDM

    Too many attempts made for this increment - 3D Truss

    Any ideas for why I am getting this error? I have drawn the truss in AutoCAD and imported it as a single part, assigned material/section, made the assembly, applied test loads and BCs at each end and a mesh. I am new to ABAQUS so would be great if someone could check over my project file so I...
  4. DarrenDM

    3D Arc Truss (ABAQUS)

    I am having some trouble with creating an appropriate ABAQUS model for the analysis of a large 3D arc box truss of the AT&T Stadium. I have created a single PART for a box truss unit and I am trying to use the “radial pattern” tool in ASSEMBLY to repeat this unit roughly 46 times across a...

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