Hi All,

I'm trying to use a connector element on the end of a spring and use connector failure so I can model the spring snapping at its breaking load. I'm currently using the LINK connector as below:

...
*ELEMENT, TYPE=CONN3D2, ELSET=BREAKCON
101,2,3
*CONNECTOR SECTION, ELSET=BREAKCON, BEHAVIOR=BREAKBEHAVIOR
BEAM
**LINK
*CONNECTOR BEHAVIOR, NAME=BREAKBEHAVIOR
*CONNECTOR FAILURE, COMPONENT=1
,,,1.03E+04
...

But I'm getting the following Error message:

**ERROR: ONE *CONNECTOR FAILURE OPTION HAS A FAILURE CRITERIA DEFINED FOR 
COMPONENT 1 WHICH IS A CONSTRAINED COMPONENT. THIS IS NOT ALLOWED IN 
Abaqus/Standard.

I'm trying to add this feature into a long-standing model that is run on standard, so I can't easily switch to an explicit analysis - is there a way to can get this to work?