OptiStruct OutFiles Jun14

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HyperWorks Best Practice

www.altairhyperworks.de/BestPractice
Interpretation der
OptiStruct Protokolldatei *.out
zur Kontrolle der Optimierung

Thomas Lehmann
(14.06.2013)
Copyright 2012 Altair Engineering, Inc. Proprietary and Confidential. All rights reserved.
Agenda
Out file overview (live)

Optimization Parameter and Start Values DVs
Retained Response Table and Response screening
User Requested Response Table
Convergence Criteria and Convergence Plotting

Examples convergence problems
Common optimization error messages
Summary
Optimization Parameter and Start Values DV

Optimization Parameter Summary (DOPTPRM) and Designvariables
Topology Opti: Start value DV = MATINIT
MATINIT defaults:
0.9
if mass,massfrac, volume or volfrac is objective
0.6
if mass,massfrac, volume or volfrac is not objective and is not constraint
Constraint value
if mass,massfrac, volume or volfrac is constraint
MATINIT = 1.0
is analysis value for density
Retained Response Table

Retained Responses: Retained responses after screening
Objective responses
Single response (min / max)
Multiple responses (minmax / maxmin)
Constraint responses
Active Constraints
Violated Constraints
Constraints are at their bounds

Constraints are over their bounds
Neither active nor violated
Constraints are under their bounds
Response screening
Screening
Reduce number of retained responses => reduce computationally expensive sensitivity calculation
Only responses witch dont affect the direction of optimization should be screened out
Auto screening
Automatically and adaptively adjusted in each iteration
Retain the least number of responses necessary for stable convergence
On by default
Not for topology with current version (OS12)
auto screening use the default values of manual screening
Manual screening
For very large problems auto screening may be require too much memory
For topology optimization
Constraints screening
For stable convergence number of retained responses should be higher than the number of active constraints
Objective screening for minmax or maxmin optimization
Use the same treshold and max retained like constraint screening. The bound is in this case the current max or min
value of the vector response
User Requested Response Table
Printing objective and screened constraints (default)
*.out: RETAINED RESPONSES TABLE and MOST VIOLATED CONSTRAINTS TABLE
Printing screened out constraints:
*.fem: RESPRINT = ALL or = MASS etc.
*.out: USER-REQUESTED RESPONSES TABLE
Printing unconstraint responses or responses inside equations.
*.fem: DREPORT (Bulk Data Section) and

REPGLB/REPSUB (I/O- / Subcase Section)
*.out: USER-REQUESTED RESPONSES TABLE
Convergence Criteria
Max number of iterations reached
*.fem: DOPTPRM,DESMAX,n -> default: 30 (without manu) or 80 (with manu)
Relative change in the objective function for two consecutive

iterations less 0.005 (default)
and constraint violations are less than 1% - Feasible Design
*.fem:
DOPTPRM, OBJTOL, n (default: 0.005)
*.out:
2nd satisfied convergence (1 x without manu; 3 x with manu)

FEASIBLE DESIGN (ALL CONSTRAINTS SATISFIED)
Relative change in the objective function for two consecutive

iterations less 0.005 (default)
and constraint violations are more than 1%
and relative change of constraints are less than 0.2% - Infeasible Design
*.out:
INFEASIBLE DESIGN (AT LEAST ONE CONSTRAINT VIOLATED)
Relative change in the design variables
*.out Soft convergence criterion satisfied;
the design did not change during the last iteration > needs 1 Iteration less then regular
convergence
Plotting Convergence in Hypergraph

*. hgadata
Plotting Response and Designvariables over iterations:
Objectiv
Consraint violations
Constraints
Designvariables
1 phase convergence vs. 3 phase convergence
Examples convergence problems

Load path cutting
displacement constraints without loads
Local compliance
Low volfrac
Load changing
Topology optimizatin with Gravity or Rotational Force

Massfrac / volfrac error I
Massfrac / volfrac error II

When massfrac / volfrac when mass / volume:
massfrac and volumefrac response
Topology and FreeSize Optimization only
Total:
scalar value
by entity:
vector response
massfrac:
Design + Nondesign
Volfrac:
only Design
mass and volume response
All disciplines
Total and sum: scalar value
by entity:
Design + Nondesign
vector response
Example vector response:

Objective: single value
Stress response is applied to Topology or FreeSize

Compliance error:
Possible reasons:
Small volfrac, Pressure on topology designspace, large model (e.g. ship)
Debugging tips
Iteration 0:
Start with feasible design e.g. topology opti: MATINIT =1.0
Iteration n:
Look at the last design:
Postprocess *_des.h3d
Look at the last analysis results:
Option 1: Restart from iteration n-1: with only 1 Iteration > *.h3d
Option 2: rerun optimization with output card OUTPUT,H3D,ALL
Summary
Interpretation of an optimization *.out file helps to:
Check optimization setup and parameters
Get desired responses
Check convergence
Check error messages

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Out file overview (live)

Convergence Criteria and Convergence Plotting

Optimization Parameter and Start Values DV

Topology Opti: Start value DV = MATINIT

if mass,massfrac, volume or volfrac is objective

if mass,massfrac, volume or volfrac is not objective and is not constraint

if mass,massfrac, volume or volfrac is constraint

is analysis value for density

Retained Response Table

Single response (min / max)

Multiple responses (minmax / maxmin)

Constraints are at their bounds

Neither active nor violated

Constraints are under their bounds

Automatically and adaptively adjusted in each iteration

Retain the least number of responses necessary for stable convergence

Not for topology with current version (OS12)

auto screening use the default values of manual screening

For topology optimization

Objective screening for minmax or maxmin optimization

User Requested Response Table

Printing objective and screened constraints (default)

*.out: RETAINED RESPONSES TABLE and MOST VIOLATED CONSTRAINTS TABLE

Printing screened out constraints:

*.fem: RESPRINT = ALL or = MASS etc.

*.out: USER-REQUESTED RESPONSES TABLE

Printing unconstraint responses or responses inside equations.

*.fem: DREPORT (Bulk Data Section) and

Max number of iterations reached

*.fem: DOPTPRM,DESMAX,n -> default: 30 (without manu) or 80 (with manu)

Relative change in the objective function for two consecutive

DOPTPRM, OBJTOL, n (default: 0.005)

2nd satisfied convergence (1 x without manu; 3 x with manu)

Relative change in the objective function for two consecutive

INFEASIBLE DESIGN (AT LEAST ONE CONSTRAINT VIOLATED)

Relative change in the design variables

*.out Soft convergence criterion satisfied;

Plotting Convergence in Hypergraph

Plotting Response and Designvariables over iterations:

1 phase convergence vs. 3 phase convergence

Examples convergence problems

displacement constraints without loads

Topology optimizatin with Gravity or Rotational Force

Common optimization error messages

Massfrac / volfrac error II

Common optimization error messages

massfrac and volumefrac response

Topology and FreeSize Optimization only

mass and volume response

Total and sum: scalar value

Example vector response:

Common optimization error messages

Stress response is applied to Topology or FreeSize

Common optimization error messages

Small volfrac, Pressure on topology designspace, large model (e.g. ship)

Interpretation of an optimization *.out file helps to:

Check optimization setup and parameters

Get desired responses

Check error messages

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