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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical Convergence issue: Tensile Test Model with progressive damage Reply To: Convergence issue: Tensile Test Model with progressive damage

David Weed
Ansys Employee

Hello,

Are you able to plot the damage vs. time? Perhaps it's reaching a point where the specimen is losing integrity/stiffness and thus causing convergence issues.