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Hi STKO,
I am running a soil-pile interaction model. which is similar to your webinar 25. After applying self-weight load of soil, I apply structural load. However, there is a non-convergence issue during structural load application. I tried to reduced structural load by multiplying 0.1 --> It run well.

Does this non-convergence issue come from my model, especially soil-pile interaction (issue of selecting the Kn, Kt values of zerolengthContactASD element) or due to the large structural load I applied?

Thank you for your support!
Buu

How are you appling your load? If the model is non linear and the input load is large, it's better to apply the load incrementally (with a linear time series) and many time steps