Instability and no convergence of nonlinear problem

Instability and no convergence of nonlinear problem

hogerc
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Instability and no convergence of nonlinear problem

hogerc
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Hi, I have a model of a tower frame with tension only web members and stay cables.  I am receiving error messages of no convergence of a nonlinear problem and I have instability in two nodes I cannot troubleshoot.

 

Please help!  My model is attached, thank you!

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Rafacascudo
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Zip it before attaching 

Rafael Medeiros
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hogerc
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Thanks for looking at this, please see zip file attached.

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Rafacascudo
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no need to assign those diagonals as tension only bars. Change them back to regular bars and the model will converge with no instabilities

Another option is to keep those diagonals as truss bars ,but resisting tension and compression . But also change the releases pinned-fixed and fixed-pinned to be blocked on the RX direction(torsion  ,because this is causing the instability type 2 which cannot be ignored

Rafael Medeiros
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