This analysis should take approximately 180 increments to complete. The top of the Job Monitor is shown in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Top of the Job Monitor: channel forming analysis.
The value of the punch displacement appears in the Output tabbed page. This simulation contains many severe discontinuity iterations. Abaqus/Standard has a difficult time determining the contact state in the first increment of Step 2. It needs three attempts before it finds the proper configuration of the PunchSurf and BlankTop surfaces and achieves equilibrium. After this difficult start, Abaqus/Standard quickly increases the increment size to a more reasonable value. The end of the Job Monitor is shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2. Bottom of the Job Monitor: channel forming analysis.
