Reply To: An error occurred inside the SOLVER module: general error (Reccurent problem)

[peteroznewman]

nI'm not an expert at CZM, but you made a few mistakes.nYou wanted to do a 2D Plane Strain model, which is okay, but you did not set the Analysis Type to 2D on the Geometry cell in Workbench.nYou cannot simply edit this value and change it to 2D. You must do that before you attach the geometry to the Model cell. Start a fresh model and do that.nYou have a Fracture branch with a Contact Debonding item pointing to a Bonded Contact region which is okay.nThe problem is you have selected the Faces of the 2D bodies to be Bonded. You should have selected the Edges. In your model, that didn't work because the Analysis Type was set to 3D.nAnother problem is you have selected No Separation contact to connect the half adhesive to the flexible and rigid adherends. You should have used Bonded Contact.nI made those repairs, but your geometry is too large to run in the Student license. The attached file has 127k nodes, while the student license is 32k nodes. Just cut 3/4 of the length off the beam and you will make it. Also, you could make the rigid parts have behavior of Rigid, then they won't need to be meshed except on one edge. Replace the Fixed Support with a Remote Displacement .nn