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Subject: Re: [struct] Sparse solver failure
Author: Yan, Hong (Bolton) hyan@
Date: 2002-06-12 10:55:00

Sounds like you need a huge memory (4263.52 MB).
Why don't you try PCG solver and check your constraint
boundary conditions?

Hong

Hong Yan, Ph.D, P.Eng, CAE Specialist
Index Development Engineering
HUSKY Injection Molding Systems Ltd.

-----Original Message-----
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 10:49 AM
To: xansys@yahoogroups.com

Hello everybody.
My model's features are:

element types:
SOLID95
SHELL93
TARGE170
CONTA174
number of elements: 46993
number of nodes: 168161
solver: sparse

The solver crashes. The output and error files at the crashing moment look
like this:

OUTPUT FILE

*** ELEMENT MATRIX FORMULATION TIMES
TYPE NUMBER ENAME TOTAL CP AVE CP

1 36400 SOLID95 40.500 0.001113
2 1 TARGE170 0.000 0.000000
3 4210 CONTA174 3.109 0.000739
4 1832 SHELL93 1.969 0.001075
Time at end of element matrix formulation CP= 81.21875.
FORCE CONVERGENCE VALUE = 116.3 CRITERION= 1.170
MOMENT CONVERGENCE VALUE = 0.000 CRITERION= 1.389

SPARSE MATRIX DIRECT SOLVER.
Number of equations = 506236, Maximum wavefront = 31274
Memory available for solver = 643.82 MB
Memory required for in-core = 4263.52 MB
Optimal memory required for out-of-core = 183.21 MB
Minimum memory required for out-of-core = 46.00 MB

*** ERROR *** CP= 973.672 TIME= 16:30:19
Sparse Matrix Solver failure. Please check the error file (file.err)
for possible causes.

*** ERROR *** CP= 973.672 TIME= 16:30:19
Bisection may be activated if it is a nonlinear analysis.

ERROR FILE

*** WARNING *** CP= 21.875 TIME= 16:11:59
Previous testing revealed that 1179 of the 46993 selected elements
violate shape warning limits. To review warning messages, please see
the output or error file, or issue the CHECK command.

*** WARNING *** CP= 28.734 TIME= 16:12:06
An initial contact closure factor (ICONT) of 2.7471381E-04 has been
selected for real constant set 2.
0***** process error reported by subroutine xdslfa
see xdslfa abstract (ier = -505)

0***** process error reported by subroutine xdslsv
see xdslsv abstract (ier = -702)

0***** process error reported by subroutine xdslsl
see xdslsl abstract (ier = -600)

*** ERROR *** CP= 973.672 TIME= 16:30:19
Sparse Matrix Solver failure. Please check the error file (file.err)
for possible causes.

Since strange subroutines are getting angry, I'm thinking everything's due
to insufficient workspace. I've asked for 1200 megabytes total and 300 for
database: NT doesn't allow me to ask for more, even if I've got 2 GB RAM.
Can anybody please help me?
P.S. = PGC runs (VERY slowly).

Thank you very much

Riccardo Testi
R&D and Operations 2 Wheels/Engine Design
Piaggio & C. spa
v.le R. Piaggio, 25 - 56025 Pontedera (PI) - ITALY


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