{"id":35113,"date":"2019-05-03T12:30:53","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T12:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/apply-the-load-slowly\/"},"modified":"2019-05-03T12:30:53","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T12:30:53","slug":"apply-the-load-slowly","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/apply-the-load-slowly\/","title":{"rendered":"apply the load slowly?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been searching for a solution for the convergence issue and I found one suggesting to &#8220;Apply the load slowly&#8221;. What does this mean exactly? Does it mean I should add more Loadstep instead of 1? (like in the pictures below)<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>1. Apply force as constant<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/bb8ca265-a243-4166-b7cf-aa000035d8cc\/114ee8c1-92fe-4b44-b88a-aa4200cd80b9_untitled.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>2. define loadstep to 10 and use tabular data to apply forces<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/bb8ca265-a243-4166-b7cf-aa000035d8cc\/67cdcd17-ccc0-4b28-aad9-aa4200cdbb93_untitled2.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If i understand correctly, applying the load slowly should mean &#8216; add the number of loadstep to like 50 or 100 &#8216; right?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-35113","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["7285"],"_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"],"_btv_view_count":["952"],"_bbp_subscription":["239014"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["35113"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","162943"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["84439"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["84439"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-05-03 17:49:07"]},"test":"taptaptap"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/35113","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\/35113\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}