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For large strain simulation

Thread starter cairos
Start date Jan 30, 2008

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Jan 30, 2008

cairos

Mechanical

Hi,
I am very beginer of ANSYS.
I did use LINK10 for analysing a structure of struss and cables. I need to lengthen the cables that's why there are some large displacements.
I tried to increase de step of load but it didn't work.

The warning message is always 'there are 1 small equation solver pivot term'
and ' The calculated reference FORCE CONVERGENCE VALUE = 6.332001992E-09 is
less than 1E-2 a threshold zero, A value of 1E-2 or specified MINREF '
What is the problems for the second question ?

Thanks very much