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ERROR # 173 and ERRORS DURING ELEMENT QUALITY CHECK

User: "Emircan Değer"
Altair Community Member
Updated by Emircan Değer

Hello,

I get two errors in my model. One of them is  ''*** ERROR # 173 *** A dependent d.o.f. defined more than once in rigid element entry. GRID ID = xxx component = 1''. I checked my RBE2 elements but I think there is no problem, I can't find the problem. Also, I get ''PROGRAM STOPPED: ERRORS DURING ELEMENT QUALITY CHECK'' error. Then, I review my elements for this error but my tet-collepse is 0. There is no problem for my elements. Where are the mistakes, where am I doing wrong? Please help me, its to important for me.

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    User: "Adriano_Koga"
    Altair Employee
    Updated by Adriano_Koga

    probably you have 2 RBE elements overlapping. Can you check for duplicated elements? ('check elems' >> duplicates)

     

    Element quality must be verified using 'check elems' too.

    User: "Adriano_Koga"
    Altair Employee
    Updated by Adriano_Koga

    Look at these RBEs.

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    They share the same nodes, thus leads to an error.

    The RBE2 connection requires that the dependent nodes are assigned to only 1 independent node.

    When multiple RBEs are created sharing nodes, this is a problem and leads to kinematic incompatibility.

    The dependent nodes "don't know" who to follow.

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    Additionally, concerning the other error:

    check for your element quality. there are a few bad elements AND the .out file shows you which ones are not so good.

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