If your model is made up of brick, wedge, or tetrahedral elements that have the same isotropic materials, Creo Simulate uses a different calculation that increases the rate of stress convergence, yielding more accurate stress results at a lower polynomial order.

Creo Simulate does not use this algorithm to compute the stresses in models made up of:

In reporting stress results, if identical positive and negative stresses are the highest stresses, Creo Simulate reports the positive stress. If the negative value is slightly higher than the positive value, Creo Simulate still reports the positive value.