{"id":32745,"date":"2019-01-20T03:18:54","date_gmt":"2019-01-20T03:18:54","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/the-solver-engine-was-unable-to-converge-on-a-solution-for-the-nonlinear-problem-as-constrained\/"},"modified":"2019-01-20T03:18:54","modified_gmt":"2019-01-20T03:18:54","slug":"the-solver-engine-was-unable-to-converge-on-a-solution-for-the-nonlinear-problem-as-constrained","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/the-solver-engine-was-unable-to-converge-on-a-solution-for-the-nonlinear-problem-as-constrained\/","title":{"rendered":"The solver engine was unable to converge on a solution for the nonlinear problem as constrained."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: ArtifaktElementRegular, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Hello,<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: ArtifaktElementRegular, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">I&#8217;ve been working on a model of a cable supported traffic signal assembly on Ansys 17.2 and I&#8217;m trying to run a non-linear analysis. I&#8217;ve set up a modal, static structural, transient structural, and a response spectrum analysis. I first attempted to run the static structural analysis and I&#8217;m receiving a consistent error message shown below. I&#8217;m on a full version license without any limits.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: ArtifaktElementRegular, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\">Error Message:&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: ArtifaktElementRegular, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">The solver engine was unable to converge on a solution for the nonlinear problem as constrained.&nbsp; Please see the Troubleshooting section of the Help System for more information.<\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: ArtifaktElementRegular, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">I thought the error may have originated from&nbsp;the attachment points of the traffic signal hangers to each cable and attempted to refine the mesh to no use. I also attempted refining the mesh at the interface of each component of the traffic signal to no use either.&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: ArtifaktElementRegular, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Please let me know of suggestions that&nbsp;could fix this error. Attached below is the file of my model.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: ArtifaktElementRegular, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Thank you<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box; color: #666666; font-family: ArtifaktElementRegular, Tahoma, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;\"><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box;\">Beny<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-32745","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-student","topic-tag-ansys-workbench","topic-tag-convergence","topic-tag-structural"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["4917"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0","0","0","0","0"],"_btv_view_count":["16118"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["32745"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","161858"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["9"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["113137"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["113137"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2020-04-30 19:58:34"]},"test":"beny386"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/32745","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\/32745\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}