Hi,
I'm performing a wheel contact analysis on flat plate surface in Femap. The wheel is modeled as a 2D circular surface with mesh thickness equal to the actual wheel width. The flat plate is modeled as a 2D surface and constrained. A vertical load is applied at the center of the wheel. For connection, I am using Contact type and connection regions are
the flat plate surface, and outer curve of wheel circular surface.
I'm trying to perform contact analysis. Simple nonlinear static analysis gives the error:
"Contact is only supported in modal solutions."
I tried advanced nonlinear analysis instead. The input .dat file already contains the line (not sure whether I am checking the right file):
ASSIGN OUTPUT2='advnlin.op2',UNIT=21
but the solver still fails with this fatal error:
*** FATAL ERROR: INPUT FILE advnlin.op2 NOT FOUND.
*** PLEASE MAKE SURE THE NASTRAN INPUT FILE CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING LINE
ASSIGN OUTPUT2='advnlin.op2',UNIT=21
*** AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FILE.
*** ISHELL PROGRAM 'NXNA' COMPLETED ***
^^^ USER FATAL MESSAGE
^^^ ERROR IN ADVANCED NONLINEAR MODULE 0
^^^SOL601 FAILED
Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
I'm performing a wheel contact analysis on flat plate surface in Femap. The wheel is modeled as a 2D circular surface with mesh thickness equal to the actual wheel width. The flat plate is modeled as a 2D surface and constrained. A vertical load is applied at the center of the wheel. For connection, I am using Contact type and connection regions are
the flat plate surface, and outer curve of wheel circular surface.
I'm trying to perform contact analysis. Simple nonlinear static analysis gives the error:
"Contact is only supported in modal solutions."
I tried advanced nonlinear analysis instead. The input .dat file already contains the line (not sure whether I am checking the right file):
ASSIGN OUTPUT2='advnlin.op2',UNIT=21
but the solver still fails with this fatal error:
*** FATAL ERROR: INPUT FILE advnlin.op2 NOT FOUND.
*** PLEASE MAKE SURE THE NASTRAN INPUT FILE CONTAINS THE FOLLOWING LINE
ASSIGN OUTPUT2='advnlin.op2',UNIT=21
*** AT THE BEGINNING OF THE FILE.
*** ISHELL PROGRAM 'NXNA' COMPLETED ***
^^^ USER FATAL MESSAGE
^^^ ERROR IN ADVANCED NONLINEAR MODULE 0
^^^SOL601 FAILED
Any suggestions on how to resolve this would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
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