I am modelling the drop of a wineglass from a height of 70cm using MES. Analysis went ok but I noticed that the glass fell faster than I expected. When plotting the 'second derivative' of a node displacement it gave a constant value of 18.2m/s^2 while it was supposed to be just around 9.81m/s2. The only load acting on the system is gravity set under standart conditions equaling to 9.81 as suggested by the solver.
Hi javorpanev,
I sure hope that MES can handle gravity correctly! I cannot think of any combination that would result in gravity being 1.85 times too strong. So there must be something else wrong with the input. Please check the following:
That's about all that I can think off.
P.S. I predict the glass will break.