{"id":236259,"date":"2022-09-25T11:22:18","date_gmt":"2022-09-25T11:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/element-has-excessive-distortion\/"},"modified":"2022-09-25T11:22:18","modified_gmt":"2022-09-25T11:22:18","slug":"element-has-excessive-distortion","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/element-has-excessive-distortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Element  has excessive distortion."},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hello everyone,&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>I am running a large deflection analysis with mechanical Apdl ( NLGEOM, ON). As soon as the loading initiates the solution collapses and I get an error message that a particular element has exceeded distortion. When I check the elements ( SHELL181 Quad node element)&nbsp; deformation it changes from a rectangular shape to a completely irregular one.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;I have tried to reduce the time step and increase the number of substeps but nothing worked.<\/div>\n<div>Why this error occurs?&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-236259","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-error-001100247"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["263387","240"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.220.96.180"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["5433"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["236259"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27784"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","263387"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["7"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["236308"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["236308"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-09-26 15:22:48"]},"test":"up1057819upnet-gr"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/236259","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\/236259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}