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[s.hamade]

Hi 

I am trying to model a tensile test of a glass fiber laminate specimen, using ACP and static analyses.

The model works fine and failure is reached at 0.9 s and model converges also at final time 1.0 s

The problem is that when I include a progressive damage law:

I get convergence issues when time approaches 0.9 s

Any recommendation for contributors or ANSYS employees ?

BR

sami

[s.hamade]

I can send you the model for a closer investigation

[David Weed]

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.