Reply To: Contacts Required for Connector Simulation

[Luke.dykstra]

Hello Peteroznewman So I have not been able to get my solution to converge yet the way that I feel it should. In addition I am not sure how to plot the Newton Raphson residual stress or if the graphics view is the only source of information when the solution does not converge. The results that I am having is the following. See Screen shot. The issue all lies in the pre-load setup and that is behaving in my model. I have no idea why the pre-load is causing this when there should be enough contacts to control this. This is at true scale as well.

Again here shows the setup that I used and the projections in order to add teh contacts required.
Thanks again for all the help and if there is additional information that I can provide with regards to contacts please let me know.