Boundary Conditions & Constraints

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

Hello,

I am trying to run a Linear Static Analysis of a huge assembly. I have 4 ISO Corners at the bottom. I have 2d meshed it (Simplified Geometry : Quad4 Elements only). When i fix the bottom face only of all the four ISO corners and run my simulation i get unsatisfactory results. By unsatisfactory i mean significantly high stresses and displacements.

But when i create a RBE2 on each of the 4 individual ISO Corners (i.e 4 RBE2's) and apply constraint/SPC (All 6-DOFs FIXED)  to those 4 RBE2s master node, i get satisfactory results. Could anyone explain why this contrasting results or mismatch?

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