Hi !
I have a plate, clamped between two walls; the plate is curved on the left and I impose a déplacement to the right side, so the plate will come to an unstable position and then will move to the right side;
I use large displacements analysis, and I include the 'snap through 'option
I have a fatal error :
" conception anormalement interrompue. Affaissement structurel détecté lors du calcul du cloquage"
which means 'structural softening/ weakening (or buckling?) detected during snap through...
but there is no hint on how to solve...
(see picture below)
Does someone has an idea ?
by the way, when a force is imposed instead of a displacement, there is no fatal error but the snap through phenomenum is not detected ..
thank you
marc
same in french :
bonjour ,
j'ai une plaque encastrée des deux cotés, légèrement incurvée (5mm ) à gauche; j'impose un déplacement de 25 mm vers la droite; logiquement, on devrait passer par une psoition instable, puis la structure devrait passer en position stable à droite (c'est une structure bistable), correspondant au phénomement dit de cloquage dans creo;
il se trouve que ce cloquage pose probleme (erreur fatale)...
comment résoudre ce probleme et traduire ce phénomemene d'instabilité ?
merci
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Hi Denis,
Thank you for your help; I use CREO 2. So, here is the situation :
I have a plate, clamped between two walls (top and bottom); the plate is curved on the left and I impose a déplacement to the right side, so the plate will come to an unstable position and then will move to the right side; I use large displacements analysis, and without the 'snap through 'option, I got an acceptable result in terms of displacements, but not in terms of force because the force is always increasing;
in fact, the force shoud decrease after an instable point,and this can be detected using the 'include snap-through' option ('inclure le cloquage' - see ptc help:
);
THE PROBLEM is that, when using this option, the snap through is detected (as it should be), but the program returns a fatal error... I tried to increase the number of steps in the analysis, but it doesn't help; when a force is imposed instead of a displacement, there is no fatal error but the snap through phenomenum is not detected ..
thank you for your help !
marc
Marc,
I can run a similar example without problem. I do not use the "snap through"-option. If I use this I too get an error message. I use a prescribed displacement, and create a measure for the reaction force. I have also used symmetry, and mapped mesh to get fewer elements.
It is not meaningful to apply an increasing load, since as you say, the direction of the force will reverse as you pass through the unstable position. Creo Simulate can't capture this; it would require an explicit solver that can capture the acceleration and the mass force as the clip snaps over to the other side. This happens very fast, so I'm not sure how one would apply a steadily increasing force. Using a prescribed displacement makes more sense, this way you analyze what happens if you slowly force the clip from one stable side to the other. The reaction force becomes negative (changes direction) as you pass the unstable position, see graph below, measure "Force" vs "Time", i.e. displacement.
/Mats Lindqvist/Suède
