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Problem with cylindrical roller bearings

User: "Rahul_P1"
Altair Employee
Updated by Rahul_P1

Hello everyone,

I am creating a numerical model of a cylindrical roller bearings using Hypermesh.
I started with one cylindrical roller with diameter 5mm. The contact area I mesh with 2D-automesh, to get the mesh finer at the contact.
Afterwards I use 'tetra mesh'-panel to create a mesh to all solids.
I have refine the contact to 0.025mm, but I do not get the analytically results of Hertzian pressure (more than 30% deviation).
The analysis is non-linear-quasi-static, the contact SLIDE, NLPARAM NINC=5 and the loadstep is set to NLSTAT.

If someone could give me tips for mesh of cylindrical rollers, I would be infinitely grateful.

And sometimes comes the ERROR # 941 NON-CONVERGENT NONLINEAR ITERATIONS FOR SUBCASE 1.

What can I do to check what I need to change in my model?

Regards,
Martin

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    User: "Rahul_P1"
    Altair Employee
    OP
    Updated by Rahul_P1

    Hi Martin,

    Can you increase the NINC and MAXITER values in NLPARM card and check if your run converges or not?

    Also, use PARAM,EXPERTNL,YES and CONTPRM,STIFF,SOFT