I'm starting to use CREO simulate 2.0 because of its ability to analyse assemblies with both contacts and large deformation (I'm still designing my parts and assemblies with WF5).
Unfortunately, ##############I'm stuck in a "Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering..." kind of loop (an analysis can run a couple of hours instead of a few minutes).
The assembly and analysis definitions were made in WF5 and opened/run with creo simulate 2.0.
Does anyone already have this kind of issue and know how I could get rid of it ?
Thanks !
PS: Here is an extract of my *.pas file:
Begin Time Step 1 of 4: 2.50000e-01
Wed May 22, 2013 15:01:24
Contact Analysis detected large displacements at one or more contact regions
This can be caused by a very flexible model or disconnected volumes or components
Temporarily overriding load factor with: 0.025Iteration Residual norm contact Area
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1 1.06435 35.9305 Wed May 22, 2013 15:02:26
2 0.182749 36.4971 Wed May 22, 2013 15:02:47
3 0.103263 37.8594 Wed May 22, 2013 15:03:08
4 0.0193484 34.3545 Wed May 22, 2013 15:03:24
5 0.000323151 34.4427 Wed May 22, 2013 15:03:45
6 0.000297367 34.2831 Wed May 22, 2013 15:04:06
7 0.000204668 34.1412 Wed May 22, 2013 15:04:27
8 0.000163927 34.036 Wed May 22, 2013 15:04:48
9 7.18929e-005 33.7046 Wed May 22, 2013 15:05:09
reset load factor to: 0.25
10 1 37.0183 Wed May 22, 2013 15:05:31
11 0.36423 34.3194 Wed May 22, 2013 15:05:47
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
12 0.00323441 34.0553 Wed May 22, 2013 15:06:21
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
13 0.000716325 33.9881 Wed May 22, 2013 15:06:55
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
14 0.000290376 34.0191 Wed May 22, 2013 15:07:28
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
15 0.0001727 34.0617 Wed May 22, 2013 15:08:13
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
16 0.000121401 34.0466 Wed May 22, 2013 15:08:59
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
17 9.55203e-005 34.0458 Wed May 22, 2013 15:09:44
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
18 7.8602e-005 34.0241 Wed May 22, 2013 15:10:29
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
19 6.67756e-005 34.0632 Wed May 22, 2013 15:11:15
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
20 5.74682e-005 34.0643 Wed May 22, 2013 15:12:00
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
21 5.01283e-005 34.0688 Wed May 22, 2013 15:12:46
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...
22 4.41229e-005 34.0759 Wed May 22, 2013 15:13:31
Adjusted gap stiffness to prevent interpenetration
*** Decomp. Singular Stiffness Matrix. Recovering...