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New to abaqus

New to abaqus

New to abaqus

(OP)
Hi all,

I'm trying to use a rigid indenter on a deformable bulk body - I used discrete rigid for the indenter and axisymmetric shell for the body.

I think I've got everything running up to speed fairly well except for I got this one error:

Error in job Push1: 10 elements have very small, negative or zero dimension/s. The elements have been identified in element set ErrElemDimSmallNegZero.

Does this have something to do with the fact that I meshed the rigid wire..? Are you supposed to mesh rigid bodies?

Thanks in advance!

RE: New to abaqus

Hi,

If you open the results (.odb) file in Abaqus CAE you can plot the element set ErrElemDimSmallNegZero to see which elements are causing the error. This might help you figure out the problem.

Good luck,
Dave

RE: New to abaqus

Dear spintwo,

I've gotten a similar error. Could you please let me know how you've overcome negative or zero dimension elements ?

Regards,
Ladykin

RE: New to abaqus

You often see this where people have, for what ever reason, used tetrahedral elements. These can be almost flat in some cases, and over curved regions can give the error of negative volume.  

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