{"id":162043,"date":"2021-09-08T07:27:48","date_gmt":"2021-09-08T07:27:48","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-sparse-matrix-error-code-18\/"},"modified":"2021-09-09T10:15:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T10:15:29","slug":"ansys-mechanical-sparse-matrix-error-code-18","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/ansys-mechanical-sparse-matrix-error-code-18\/","title":{"rendered":"Ansys Mechanical: Sparse Matrix Error code = 18"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"Item-Body\">\n<div class=\"Message userContent\">\n<p>Hi everybody,<\/p>\n<p>I&#039;m doing some static structural analysis with Ansys Mechanical through Workbench 18.1 and I&#039;m getting an error which is not helpful at all:<\/p>\n<p><code class=\"code codeInline\" spellcheck=\"false\">An error has occurred in the Sparse Matrix Solver while processing the&nbsp;matrix values.&nbsp;Error code = 18.&nbsp;Please send the data leading to this&nbsp;operation to your technical support provider, as this will allow&nbsp;ANSYS, Inc to improve the program.<\/code><\/p>\n<p>Anyone knows what the error 18 stands for?<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>It&#039;s the only error I get and it stops the simulation.<\/p>\n<p>FYI, the model I&#039;m running uses quadratic shell elements with several contacts between different parts.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Best regards,<\/p>\n<p>Davide<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-162043","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-error","topic-tag-fatal-error","topic-tag-sparse-matrix-1","topic-tag-structural-mechanics","topic-tag-unknown-error"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_author_ip":[""],"_bbp_old_reply_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_reply_anonymous_id":["false"],"_btv_view_count":["3553"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_bbp_subscription":["233379"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["162043"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["3350","187576"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["191377"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["191377"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2021-09-09 10:15:29"]},"test":"davide86"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/162043","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/162043\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}