Hi Richard (@tenshinshoden),
I’ve added material plasticity to my example project. The deformation is still only 1 mm.
https://www.simscale.com/projects/BenLewis/pipe_bending/
Here is an animation of the results.
The next step is to add the sinusoidal load profile. But as it stands now, this simulation will take a very long time to solve with all the time steps you require (up to 600 seconds). I suggest you try to optimise the settings first before attempting the full-length simulation. Here are some things you can try to speed things up:
- Increase the load increment size. The larger the load step the fewer the number of steps required to achieve the target load but the greater the chance of failure. Auto time stepping can help in this case.
- Use a coarser mesh on the slave surfaces.
- Change the contact nonlinearity resolution back to the default type Newton.