As I mentioned above it only shows 1,0 thru 1,8 no sign of step 2.
Do I have to do something special to make sure results get saved??
Can you share image of cvg file.
From the Temp directory in the installation directory.
And frd file size
Think Iāve finally got it working - have to press Results button on Monitor Window or stuff gets lost.
Thanks for help everyone - Iām sure this must all seem obvious to those in the know.
The Temp directory holds the frd results file which can be opened directly and independently.
Arghhhā¦ my new attempt (still only 2 parts) wonāt even converge on the initial pre-load on the bolts.
And it seemed so close after so much helpā¦
Finally manged to get a convergence - BUT the stress plot doesnāt seem to reflect the pressure loads applied on the flow channels.
Surely a uniform pressure should give surface stress equal to the pressure? - OK that would be normal stress - is there some way to view that? (actually 14.26MPa isnāt bad for 15MPa applied - thereāll be some bending no doubt).
Am I missing something else. Iām finding it rather unwieldy to manipulate the model and the section view - is there a simple way to get section view normal to a principal axis?
How do I probe for stress on a face?
How do I view residual clamping pressure between plates (to determine if the process fluid is likely to leak out)? Iād have thought S33, but it doesnāt look promising.
Tools ā Query ā Surface (thereās also a toolbar button for Query) but I usually use the Vertex/Node mode instead to probe more precisely.
CPRESS might be what you are looking for but you may have to request it in field output if you donāt have it already.
Did you right-click the section view icon?
If youāre iterating to find pretension and ensure process fluid is not leaking, then it can be quicker to use tied constraint and look at S33 (in your case) to get the setup close before doing the lengthier analysis with contact. This will converge quickly and tell you if youāre miles away as a first pass ot if youāve got lots of different bolting placement solutions. I may have already mentioned this in the thread, apologies if Iām repeating.
I saw the control for section view - I just donāt understand how Iām supposed to use it to define direction. What is the āplane pointā ?
I have a contact in the model - but no contact shows up in the results treeā¦ (Ah - so I have to specifically add that before running the analysis - not obvious).
Is there a list of names/abbreviations ? I searched both PrePoMax and Calculix documents for COPEN - no result. I can guess some, but would prefer to be sure.
Itās just a way of defining a plane by specifying a point and a normal direction for the plane.
https://www.dhondt.de/ccx_2.22.pdf#subsection.6.13
https://www.dhondt.de/ccx_2.22.pdf#subsection.7.20
COPEN is part of CDIS - you request the latter to get the former (and CSLIP for tangential displacement). Same in Abaqus.
The section view is defined by a plane. The plane is defined by a direction - normal and a point. The point is not very important if you use the slider to move the section view plane.
