[conza]

Dear All,

I am running a solid-solid contact case and using the updated Lagrangian formulation (“nonLinearGeometryUpdatedLagrangian”) as the “solidModel”.
The problem I am facing is related to the use of function objects to calculate forces. I am using solids4Foam with foam-extend-4.1.

I am using a function object of type "solidForcesDisplacements" to analyse the time evolution of the force in one patch.

The problem is that every time I restart the case, the force starts from a small value and starts increasing again. On the other side, if I run the simulation continuously (without restarting), the force continuously increases with time.
I attached at the end of this message, the result (Force x time) of a case where I restarted the simulation 4 times to demonstrate the problem.

If you have any suggestion on how to overcome this problem, please, let me know.

Thank you so much for your attention!

Kind regards,
Conrado


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[anaspauzi]

I'm also facing the same problem. Please share if you have a solution.

Thank you

Originally Posted by conza

Dear All,

I am running a solid-solid contact case and using the updated Lagrangian formulation (“nonLinearGeometryUpdatedLagrangian”) as the “solidModel”.
The problem I am facing is related to the use of function objects to calculate forces. I am using solids4Foam with foam-extend-4.1.

I am using a function object of type "solidForcesDisplacements" to analyse the time evolution of the force in one patch.

The problem is that every time I restart the case, the force starts from a small value and starts increasing again. On the other side, if I run the simulation continuously (without restarting), the force continuously increases with time.
I attached at the end of this message, the result (Force x time) of a case where I restarted the simulation 4 times to demonstrate the problem.

If you have any suggestion on how to overcome this problem, please, let me know.

Thank you so much for your attention!

Kind regards,
Conrado


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[conza]

Originally Posted by anaspauzi

I'm also facing the same problem. Please share if you have a solution.

Thank you

Hi Anas Muhamad,


I talked to Philip and explained the issue to him. He pushed a very detailed commit with changes to ensure the consistent restarting for cases using nonlinear solid models. You can find the discussion on this link: https://bitbucket.org/philip_cardiff...object-may-not and the commit with the changes on this link https://bitbucket.org/philip_cardiff...mmits/4670d20b


And you can download the solids4Foam version with all those changes already added from the development branch on this link https://bitbucket.org/philip_cardiff...c/development/


I performed some tests and, for now, everything is going fine.


Kind regards,
Conrado