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Re: zero Force everywhere!!

by yowasi :: Rate this Message:

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There is a good reason why I used "could" and not "will". The same reason underlies the mention of the need to recheck units. Play with a few numbers where units are mixed (which is a very easy mistake to make) and where numbers could (as a result) differ by such orders of magnitude.

Regards,
Robert

--- In Abaqus@..., "Steve Manifold" <s.manifold@...> wrote:

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> You might want to recheck your units.
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> Also, your entries for loads are expanded to, for example, "e+06" which I
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> the calculation involves inverting at some point, you are bound to end up
> with very tiny numbers, which could easily be declared to be zero during
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> Regards,
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> --- In Abaqus@... <mailto:Abaqus%40yahoogroups.com> , ziyad
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> > I had recieved following warrning when modeling load test on board pile.
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> > warrning:"There is zero FORCE everywhere in the model based on the default
> > criterion. please check the value of the average FORCE during the current
> > iteration to verify that the FORCE is small enough to be treated as zero.
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> > not, please use the solution controls to reset the criterion for zero
> > FORCE." http://www.nabble.com/file/p24147811/Load-test.inp Load-test.inp
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