Output acceleration is greater than the input acceleration

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Prafullamalla
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Output acceleration is greater than the input acceleration

Post by Prafullamalla » Wed Dec 04, 2019 12:38 am

The output accelearation is same as input for about 0.1g, but when I increase the input accel to 0.3g then the ouput accel becomes about 6g. What might be the reason for the increase in output acceleration at the node.
Prafulla Malla, Nepal
Praf_malla@hotmail.com

Prafullamalla
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Joined: Mon Feb 02, 2015 6:32 pm

Re: Output acceleration is greater than the input acceleration

Post by Prafullamalla » Wed Dec 04, 2019 11:40 pm

The problem is due to non-convergence in the intermediate steps. When there is non-convergence in intermediate steps, it calculates unusual too Big value. Then in the next step, it again uses this unusual big value
Prafulla Malla, Nepal
Praf_malla@hotmail.com

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