Can Optistruct define a part to be rigid?

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

I know it can use RBE2 to let the part to be rigid.

 

But if today I want this component to be rigid.

 

Can I let the part to be rigid and not use the MPC method

 

I also have a question. My ram is 16GB and I use it to run, it will have the error.


 *** ERROR # 3401 ***
 System does not have enough memory available for MUMPS solver. MUMPS needs 
 addtional 64328 MB. Please use a computer with bigger physical RAM.

 

Can I use less ram to run? I set the-maxlen

 

and it also failed

Answers

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited March 2018

    Hi

    did you use RBODY keyword?

     

    why did you have to change solver type to MUMPS?

    -maxlen is to limit memory for solver usage, it cannot increase your ram to 64G

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2018

    @tinh Thanks to your apply.

     

    I have tried RBODY, my process is set>set element, Creat>rigid body>Elements set. It will error and I didn't set any property and material of my part.

     

    At the second problem of the MUMPS because at this time my solution method is Non-linear quasi-static

     

    and I have also tried maxlen and I also set the PARAM>HASHASSM>yes, but it still error.

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited March 2018

    You have to assign property and material for those elements

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2018

    @tinh Thanks to your apply 

     

    But I assign them prperty and material it still error

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited March 2018

    what is the error?

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2018

    @tinh I finally 

     

    constrained hole in RBE2

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited March 2018

    So why don't you let it deformable and constraint all its nodes by RBE2?

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2018

    @tinh 

     

    Because I want it to be rigid body 

     

    So I just constraint it's bolt hole for RBE2.

  • tinh
    tinh Altair Community Member
    edited March 2018

    please constraint all its nodes by rbe2 and rerun

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2018

    Because I want it to be rigid body 

     

    So I just constraint it's bolt hole for RBE2.

    But what is the use-case?

     

    This may not give proper results. 

  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited March 2018

    @tinh Thanks for your reply. I will try it.

     

    @Prakash Pagadala I use the part to contact with other part.

     

    And one part is the rigid other is elastic material.

     

    And the rigid part have the 4 bolt hole, I just give the 4 bolt RBE2.

     

    My analysis at run it doen't have error, but it doesn't run finish. 

     

    So I need to use the @tinh method to constrain all nodes to be RBE2 to rerun?

     

    If I choose 3 parts it will show the error and just only a part will have 128937 nodes.

     

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    Here I have  a model and how should I constrain this 2 part to be rigid.

     

     

    After that, can I use the high young's modulus to define the rigid body in non-linear quasi-static analysis?

     

    If my material original young's modulus is 210 GPa, I modify to 210 E^15 Pa.

     

    Really thanks.

     

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