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Subject: Re: Deleting TIME
Author: Martin Liddle
Date: 1999-08-25 04:26:00In article <935564804.108738.0@p...>, Marc Seidel
writes
>Is there a possibility to delete solutions and corresponding TIME-values
within
>a solution?
>My problem is as follows: I am analyzing a bolted connection with a preloaded
>bolt. The preload is applied by displacement of the bolt's nodes. Because of
>the penetration of the contact elements, I have to iterate the displacement
>values, but I still want that the solution step with correct preload is at
>TIME=1.0. If I iterate within my batch, ANSYS increases the TIME-value so
>that the TIME-value with correct preload depends on the number of iterations
>that were needed.
How about running the iterative solutions with a very small time step
increment so that irrespective of the number of iterations, the time at
convergence is much less than one. Then run a dummy load step that will
converge in one iteration with time set to one.
Martin Liddle, Tynemouth Computer Services, 27 Garforth Close,
Cramlington, Northumberland, England, NE23 6EW.
Phone: 01670-712624. Fax: 01670-717324.