Simulation Stopping Criteria
Stopping criteria allow you to automatically abort a simulation based on results that are reported intermittently during a simulation. The stopping criteria are designed to prevent poorly defined or unrealistic simulations from consuming excessive system resources. Generally you should not need to modify the stopping criteria settings.
Some simulations will run to completion even though they exceed the stopping criterion. However, for long-running simulations the stopping criterion prevents the consumption of time and computing resources once an obvious failure limit has been exceeded. Diagnostic results are displayed indicating the state of the part at the point at which the simulation stopped.
- Use plastic strain (PEEQ) limit
- Select this option to stop stress simulations if a specified plastic strain has been exceeded in your model (these stopping criteria do not apply to thermal simulations). During a simulation, DesignSight checks the PEEQ values periodically to determine if the simulation should continue.
- Allowable percent plastic strain (PEEQ)
- Specify the value of plastic strain (expressed as a percentage) above which a simulation should stop running.