Hi folks, im new here and im also new at using CREO Simulate, havent really gotten the grabs of this p-element stuff yet.
To the point: I'm performing a static analysis of a lifting lug which is affected by a force acting on a surface inside a hole, this surface models the contact surface between the hole and the lifting tool. The lifting lug is constrained by bolts in holes and i've also constrained it to only move planar for a specified surface (see picture i attached).
I set the solver to MPA where i seartch for convergence of strain energy, von mises and maximal principal stress for the whole model. I set a convergence criteria to 7%.
The current mesh setup allows the solver to find a solution within the specified convergence criteria.. BUT in the "Run status report", in the last pass, it also stated that there are X-number of elements not converged..
The result give me both von mises and max principal stresses that are WAY above the value it should be. The area of interest is the bend and the hole section, stresses at the bolt holes are not of interest. The model material is S55, ive set modulus to 190 000 MPa and poisson to 0.3.
Does anyone have a any tip or tricks to get more accurate stresses? I've also attached the .prt file so that you can try the simulation yourself.
Cheers
Assuming i have a case where the sling angle is 45 degree (phi). And due to the position of the lifting lug on the structure, my alpha angle is 70 degree. I have a vertical load (z-axis in picture) and a horizontal load Fcos(phi). Could i use ROTATION coordinate system and rotate around the x-axis in the model to 70 degree, so that i have the force in plane (2D). And the lifting tool, as i said before, i assume that the contact surface point/line is changing depending on how the sling angle (phi) (and alpha?) is definied. Lets say i have a horizontal force of 17000 N and vertical 18000, would that work then? I've calculated the contact point to around 20 degree from the midplane (topside)
Yes that was indeed the case 
the part 'EYE' had stuck in session and was not up to date.
Can i ask you, how do you get that result shown as the example picture you posted? Only the EYE part is shown and the rest components are only highlighted edges, looks really good, but cant find that option
Thank you Paul, now i'm almost there!
The colorscheme is different, im not sure which surface to select, i want to select a volume but it asked me to select surfaces. Loadset: Summed, in your picture it's set to "Loadset1: EYE", did you remove the preload from loadset in SPA?
