Newton-Raphson Residues
When doing non-linear analysis, it is good practice to indicate you would like to save the Newton-Raphson Residuals before the analysis is started. It can go a long way in troubleshooting when/ if the solution doesn't converge later. You may do so by specifying how many youngest residuals you wish to keep. I personally like to keep 3 to see if it is consistent. Also, increase " Identify Element Violations " toggle to 1 to locate any mangled elements. Number of Residuals & Identify Distorted Elements ANSYS now spends a bit of time & resource saving the residuals as it solves each iteration (see below). If you specify only 3 (as suggested above), only the youngest 3 residuals are saved with successive overwriting of the older files. The process is highlighted in the output file below: file.out showing when residual files are saved If later ANSYS spouts out colorful language disguised as WARNING or ERROR, you would then see the following objects under...