{"id":37150,"date":"2019-08-14T12:23:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-14T12:23:24","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/substeps\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T08:17:34","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T08:17:34","slug":"substeps","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/substeps\/","title":{"rendered":"Substeps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hello everyone,<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I would be grateful if someone could explain me the difference between initial, minimum and maximum sub-steps for static models including contacts.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>As I know increasing the sub-steps could solve convergence problems of contact models because it can divide the load level to small values and load is increased gradually during solving. But I am confused&nbsp;between three different sub-steps that can be defined in Ansys.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><strong>Best regards, Shabnam Samsami<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-37150","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-nonlinear","topic-tag-rc-beam"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["9325"],"_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":["13772"],"_bbp_subscription":["241047"],"_edit_lock":["1659341856:76739"],"_edit_last":["76739"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["37150"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["897","166380"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["92282"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["92282"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-08-16 07:58:26"]},"test":"royalflowers"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/37150","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\/37150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}