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Stress Error Estimates

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hammerpe

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I am running a multipass analysis set to converge within 5%. I am confused about what exactly the RMS stress error Estimates is tellling me. When I run my analysis I get what looks like a very large stress error.....

RMS Stress Error Estimates:

Load Set Stress Error % of Max Prin Str
---------------- ------------ -----------------
Load-Rear&nb sp; 5.06e+04 65.4% of 7.73e+04

Local Stress Error Estimates:

Load Set&nb sp; Stress Error
max over max over
model selected elements
---------------- ------------ -----------------
Load-Rear&nb sp; 111.4% 0.0%

Yet it also says this:

The analysis converged to within 5% on
edge displacement, element strain energy,
and global RMS stress.

Is this a high stress error or not???
 

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