Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
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Hi,
I am trying to model a Lap Joint with Holes connected by a Bushing element and coupling elements.

The wire represents the fasteners and is assigned Bushing connector elements with Elastic stiffness (or flexibility) defined. The fastener element is connected to respective plates (top & bottom) via Distributed coupling.
A tensile load is applied to the top plate while the corresponding opposite end is fixed on the bottom plate as shown below:

However, the analysis gets aborted when I run it. The message files says
"
***NOTE: THE SOLUTION APPEARS TO BE DIVERGING. CONVERGENCE IS JUDGED UNLIKELY.
***ERROR: TOO MANY ATTEMPTS MADE FOR THIS INCREMENT"
I have attached zip file containing the job analysis message file. Also there were several warnings of singularities. I suspect some how there is Rigid body motion happening!
ALso, I am inserting images of my Bushing Connector & Distributed Coupling Settings entry in Abaqus CAE


Note: 1) The above problem setup runs fine in Nastran i.e. using RBE3 MPC with CBUSH (Sring/DOF element) for fasteners. I thought I could replicate the same modeling method in Abaqus.
2) I did a much more simpler Lap Joint model but without holes and used Fastener connection in Abaqus with everything else remaining the same (except for manually created couplings) and analysis ran fine with no errors and expected outputs.
I would really appreciate help with the above issue.
Thanks...
I am trying to model a Lap Joint with Holes connected by a Bushing element and coupling elements.

The wire represents the fasteners and is assigned Bushing connector elements with Elastic stiffness (or flexibility) defined. The fastener element is connected to respective plates (top & bottom) via Distributed coupling.
A tensile load is applied to the top plate while the corresponding opposite end is fixed on the bottom plate as shown below:

However, the analysis gets aborted when I run it. The message files says
"
***NOTE: THE SOLUTION APPEARS TO BE DIVERGING. CONVERGENCE IS JUDGED UNLIKELY.
***ERROR: TOO MANY ATTEMPTS MADE FOR THIS INCREMENT"
I have attached zip file containing the job analysis message file. Also there were several warnings of singularities. I suspect some how there is Rigid body motion happening!
ALso, I am inserting images of my Bushing Connector & Distributed Coupling Settings entry in Abaqus CAE


Note: 1) The above problem setup runs fine in Nastran i.e. using RBE3 MPC with CBUSH (Sring/DOF element) for fasteners. I thought I could replicate the same modeling method in Abaqus.
2) I did a much more simpler Lap Joint model but without holes and used Fastener connection in Abaqus with everything else remaining the same (except for manually created couplings) and analysis ran fine with no errors and expected outputs.
I would really appreciate help with the above issue.
Thanks...





RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
So, I have used the same method, except that I am using a Bushing connector element instead of beam. I don't Beam allows me to enter flexibility values for different directions like Bushing does. Any suggestions on replacing Beam with something that allows stiffness/flexibility values to be entered. I guess, I can create a Spring element for each direction, but that would drive up the computation costs, although for my simple model it shouldn't matter. Anyways, the intent is to find a single 6 DOF Spring element if I need to do the above in large models.
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
Thx
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
I have succeeded a long time ago with a beam and two rigid couplings. The two things I had difficulty with/forgot to do at first was applying the beam section to the line (I know...) and getting the couplings to connect to the end of the beams and not a reference point hanging in the air.
Have you connected your nodes with a ridig coupling to see if there is something else that is causing your convergence issues?
***WARNING: SOLVER PROBLEM. NUMERICAL SINGULARITY WHEN PROCESSING NODE
ASSEMBLY.1 D.O.F. 5 RATIO = 1.85444E+15.
***WARNING: SOLVER PROBLEM. NUMERICAL SINGULARITY WHEN PROCESSING NODE
ASSEMBLY.1 D.O.F. 6 RATIO = 3.94648E+15.
***WARNING: THE INCREMENTAL ROTATION AT THE FIRST NODE OF THE CONNECTOR
ELEMENT NUMBER 1 (ASSEMBLY) IS VERY LARGE. THIS MAY LEAD TO
NONCOVERGENCE OR SUBSEQUENT SYSTEM ERROR MESSAGES.
Where is that? Try checking the "job diagnostics". It could be that your beams/bushings are rotating around the lengthwise axis, or would that be DOF 4 (anyone?)?
Good luck! Hope you get it working.
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
Otherwise you can do it by writing in the input file. Maybe this will help you: Link
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
I don't have any idea how to preload in this model. Normal bolt preload function cannot apply to this model. If you have any suggestion please share it
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
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RE: Modeling Plates+Fasteners with Holes
Dear VN1981, I have the same problem like you. I want to to enter flexibility values for different directions such as Bushing. Could you find any solution for this?
Thank you