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Radial deformation when moment is applied in Abaqus 1

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SilentAndromeda

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I have a torque load cell that I modeled in SolidWorks and sectioned it into fourths. After importing into Abaqus and meshing it, I applied radial symmetry to create a whole piece in the assembly. I then added tie constraints to adjacent faces, boundary condition to pin the base, and coupled moment of 4 N*m to the top face. After running the job and viewing the stress at a deformation scale factor of 1, the top face where the moment is applied seems to burst out like a cup. Am I missing any constraints and can someone please help? [Here]( is a walk through of my steps.
 
Have you run the nonlinear with NLGEOM on?
 
Looks like its enlarging because of the rotation, i.e. only visually.
 
I ran the Sim again with NLGEOM on and it seemed to solve the problem. Thank You.
 
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