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Changing Total Time changes the result?

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sanju261991

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I am simulating a ball bouncing using Abaqus/Explicit. I have noticed that if the total time of the simulation is changed theresults also change, which I think does not make sense as the whole setup is the same except the total time.

Here is the plot of Kinetic Energy vs Time for 3 different total times.

KE_e0od13.png


After I zoomin, I would expect the plots to overlap, but I find that the plot do not overlap.

KE-zoomed_qs744v.png


I am using automatic timesteping for the simulation. Also the 'Initial time increment' is the same for all the cases.

Can anyone explain why this happens?

Thanks
 
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