{"id":359640,"date":"2024-03-29T21:45:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T21:45:26","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/359640\/"},"modified":"2024-03-29T21:45:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T21:45:26","slug":"359640","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/359640\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Force Convergence Issue in Solder Joint Reliability Simulations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;If you have a face created by cutting a solid body with a plane of symmetry, create a Displacement BC on that face to prevent nodes from moving normal to that face, leaving the other components Free. You don&#8217;t need to use a Symmetry Region. You can use one and that is what it will do under-the-hood.&nbsp; The benefit of a Symmetry Region is if you have the edge of a shell mesh on that plane, it will apply the 2 rotational constraints that must be added to the translational constraint you are applying with the Displacement BC.&nbsp; Another benefit is to expand the results to mirror them to the other side of the plane that wasn&#8217;t meshed.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-359640","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/359640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/359640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}