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    The document discusses a graphical solution tracking plot from an ANSYS structural analysis. It describes that the plot shows the cumulative iteration number on the x-axis and the absolute convergence norm on the y-axis. It then explains the different curves on the plot, including the F_CRIT convergence criteria curve and the F_L2 internal force curve, and how ANSYS iterates solutions until the F_L2 value is below the F_CRIT value for each substep of the analysis.

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    The document discusses a graphical solution tracking plot from an ANSYS structural analysis. It describes that the plot shows the cumulative iteration number on the x-axis and the absolute convergence norm on the y-axis. It then explains the different curves on the plot, including the F_CRIT convergence criteria curve and the F_L2 internal force curve, and how ANSYS iterates solutions until the F_L2 value is below the F_CRIT value for each substep of the analysis.

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    The document discusses a graphical solution tracking plot from an ANSYS structural analysis. It describes that the plot shows the cumulative iteration number on the x-axis and the absolute convergence norm on the y-axis. It then explains the different curves on the plot, including the F_CRIT convergence criteria curve and the F_L2 internal force curve, and how ANSYS iterates solutions until the F_L2 value is below the F_CRIT value for each substep of the analysis.

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    The document discusses a graphical solution tracking plot from an ANSYS structural analysis. It describes that the plot shows the cumulative iteration number on the x-axis and the absolute convergence norm on the y-axis. It then explains the different curves on the plot, including the F_CRIT convergence criteria curve and the F_L2 internal force curve, and how ANSYS iterates solutions until the F_L2 value is below the F_CRIT value for each substep of the analysis.

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    GraphicalSolutionTracking

    Introduction
    ThistutorialwascompletedusingANSYS7.0ThiswillactasanexplanationofwhattheGraphical
    SolutionTrackingplotisacutallydescribing.Anexampleofsuchaplotisshownbelowandwillbe
    usedthroughouttheexplanation.

    1. TitleandAxisLabels
    Thetitleofthegraphisreallyjustthetimevalueofthelastcalculatediteration.Inthis
    example,thetimeattheendoftheanalysiswassetto1.Thiscanbechangedwith
    theTimecommandbeforetheSolvecommandisissued.Formoreinformationregarding
    settingthetimevalue,andmanyothersolutioncontroloption,seeChapter8.5ofthe
    StructuralAnalysisGuideintheHelpfile.
    ThexaxisislabelledCumulativeIterationNumber.AsANSYSstepsthroughnonlinear
    analysis,itusesasolver(NewtonRaphson,etc)thatiteratestofindasolution.Ifthe
    problemisrelativelylinear,veryfewiterationswillberequiredandthusthelengthofthe
    graphwillbesmall.However,ifthesolutionishighlynonlinear,orisnotconverging,
    manyiterationswillberequired.Thelengthofthegraphinthesecasescanbequitelong.
    Again,formoreinformationaboutchangingiterationsettings,youcanseeChapter8.5in
    thehelpfile.
    TheyaxisislabelledAbsoluteConvergenceNorm.Inthecaseofastructuralanalysis,
    whichthisgraphistakenfrom,thisabsoluteconvergencenormreferstononnormalized

    values(iethereareunitsassociatedwiththesevalues).Someanalysesusenormalized
    values.Inrealityitdoesn'treallymatterbecauseitisonlyacomparisonthatisgoingon.
    Thisiswhatwillbeexplainednext.
    2. CurvesandLegend
    Ascanbeguessedfromthelegendlabels,thisgraphrelatestoforcesandmoments.These
    valuesaregraphedbecausetheyarethecorrespondingvaluesinthesolutionvectorforthe
    DOF'sthatareactiveintheelementsbeingused.Ifthisgraphwerefromathermal
    analysis,thecurvesmaybefortemperature.
    Foreachparameter,therearetwocurvesplotted.Foreaseofexplanation,wewilllookat
    theforcecurves.
    TheFCRITcurvereferstotheconvergencecriteriaforcevalue.Thisvalueisequal
    totheproductofVALUExTOLER.ThedefaultvalueofVALUEisthesquarerootof
    thesumofthesquares(SRSS)oftheappliedloads,orMINREF(whichdefaultsto
    0.001),whicheverisgreater.Thisvaluecanbechangedusing
    theCNVTOLcommand,whichisdiscussedinthehelpfile.ThevalueofTOLER
    defaultsto0.5%forloads.
    OnemayinquirewhytheFCRITvalueincreasesasthenumberofiterations
    increases.Thisisbecausetheanalysisismadeupofanumberofsubsteps.Inthe
    caseofastructuralexample,suchasthis,thesesubstepsarebasicallyportionsofthe
    totalloadbeingappliedovertime.Forinstance,a100Nloadbrokenupwith20
    substepsmeans20,5Nloadswillbeappliedconsequtivelyuntiltheentire100Nis
    applied.Thus,theFCRITvalueatthestartwillbe1/20thofthefinalFCRITvalue.
    TheFL2curvereferstotheL2VectorNormoftheforces.TheL2normisthe
    SRSSoftheforceimbalancesforallDOF's.Insimplerterms,thisistheSRSSof
    thedifferencebetweenthecalculatedinternalforceataparticularDOFandthe
    externalforceinthatdirection.
    Foreachsubstep,ANSYSiteratesuntiltheFL2valueisbelowtheFCRITvalue.Once
    thisoccurs,itisdeemedthesolutioniswithintoleranceofthecorrectsolutionandit
    movesontothenextsubstep.Generally,whenthecurvespeakthisisthestartofanew
    substep.Ascanbeseeninthegraphabove,apeakfolloweverytimetheL2valuedrops
    belowtheCRITvalue,asexpected.

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