Hi David,
On Mon, Dec 8, 2014 at 2:46 PM, David Knezevic <david.kneze...@akselos.com>
wrote:
>
>
> The code converges and seems to give reasonable results, but I was hoping
> to get a second (or more!) set of eyes on this to check that it's
> reasonable.
>
I'll try and have a quick look later this week.
> In particular, the convergence seems to be flaky if I increase
> forcing_magnitude, which makes me suspect that something is wrong...
>
How much? This is not unexpected - at some point the motion is too much for
the nonlinear solver to handle. This is why doing displacement/loading
increments and even continuation are very common in solid mechanics. (I'm
sure all of that is familiar to you though.)
Best,
Paul
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