{"id":41563,"date":"2020-03-06T14:10:15","date_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:10:15","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/mesh-control\/"},"modified":"2020-03-06T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-06T14:10:15","slug":"mesh-control","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/mesh-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Mesh control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Ansys,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>while simulating a model in Ansys work bench 19.1 I got an error like this<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Element 2616 (type = 2, SOLID186) (and maybe other elements) has become&nbsp; &nbsp;highly distorted.&nbsp; Excessive distortion of elements is usually a&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; symptom indicating the need for corrective action elsewhere.&nbsp; Try&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;incrementing the load more slowly (increase the number of substeps or&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;decrease the time step size).&nbsp; You may need to improve your mesh to&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;obtain elements with better aspect ratios.&nbsp; Also consider the behavior&nbsp; &nbsp; of materials, contact pairs, and\/or constraint equations.&nbsp; Please rule&nbsp; &nbsp; out other root causes of this failure before attempting rezoning or&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;nonlinear adaptive solutions.&nbsp; If this message appears in the first&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;iteration of first substep, be sure to perform element shape checking.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>but when I changed the mesh size from 0.25 mm to 0.26 mm it worked and i got the result. Why it happening like this. And how can I overcome this trial and error method to get the optimum mesh size.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>How can I locate the offending object and how can i correct that element. please tell me the procedure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-41563","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["13743"],"_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"],"_btv_view_count":["2742"],"_bbp_subscription":["245550","267426"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["41563"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["22","171205","267426"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["7"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["240629"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["240629"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2022-11-14 07:19:05"]},"test":"gijoys4v"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/41563","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\/41563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}