m_motaal_design@yahoo.com [Abaqus]
2018-11-25 13:40:52 UTC
Hello everybody. I have a model in which a bolted connection is being simulated. I started the solution
with an implicit dynamic step as I needed to pretension the bolts and in the same time to save time. I ran the model successfully for the first implicit step at the end of which the convergence turned to be very slow in rate.
after that i decided to make an extensive explicit step to avoid convergence troubles especially that the model has sever plastic deformations. Now when I am trying importing the explicit step after the implicit dynamic one an error is given related to the kinematic coupling I used in the model. it has the following msg:
"SPECIFIED SURFACE ASSEMBLY_KM DOES NOT EXIST. THIS SURFACE MUST BE
DEFINED."
I have already removed all constraints and boundary conditions and redefined them as it have to be specified again in the explicit step. I also do not know how to model preload in in an explicit step if anybody got about those two issues can he/she please share it. Thank you in advance.
with an implicit dynamic step as I needed to pretension the bolts and in the same time to save time. I ran the model successfully for the first implicit step at the end of which the convergence turned to be very slow in rate.
after that i decided to make an extensive explicit step to avoid convergence troubles especially that the model has sever plastic deformations. Now when I am trying importing the explicit step after the implicit dynamic one an error is given related to the kinematic coupling I used in the model. it has the following msg:
"SPECIFIED SURFACE ASSEMBLY_KM DOES NOT EXIST. THIS SURFACE MUST BE
DEFINED."
I have already removed all constraints and boundary conditions and redefined them as it have to be specified again in the explicit step. I also do not know how to model preload in in an explicit step if anybody got about those two issues can he/she please share it. Thank you in advance.