Dear Benhour, Thank you for taking my point heart and providing more specifics about your actual problem.
For the horizontal axis, I have considered the zero displacement along > y-axis because of symmetry. Is it correct? Should I fix the center of the > circle as well? > If you don't provide at least one Dirichlet constraint for each of the solution components then your problem is indeterminate. So if you only constrain the x-DoFs along the y-axis and have no other Dirichlet constraints then this could be the source of some troubles. > How Can I do that? In other words, How can I fix one point (vertex) in > 2-D? > You have to manually add such a point constraint to the constraint matrix or map of boundary values. If your centre point is coincident with a vertex of the triangulation then you can achieve this with the help of the cell->vertex_dof_index() function. There have been plenty of posts <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/dealii/vertex_dof_index%7Csort:date> in the past on how this function works, so I need not explain it again in detail. I should also note that for highly nonlinear problems, if your load increment is too large between time steps then this could also be problematic (unless you're using a load-following algorithm like the arc-length method). It may be of use to reduce the magnitude of the applied traction while you're debugging this. Regards, Jean-Paul -- The deal.II project is located at http://www.dealii.org/ For mailing list/forum options, see https://groups.google.com/d/forum/dealii?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "deal.II User Group" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to dealii+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.