When will my mesh adaptivity stop iterating?

When you create an adaptivity process, you define a sequence of jobs to be run successively. You can specify the number of jobs in the sequence by specifying the maximum number of analysis iterations allowed, $i t e r_{\max}$ . The maximum number of remeshing operations will be $i t e r_{\max}$ −1, because no remeshing will be performed after the final analysis job is run. When you submit the remesh process, Abaqus/CAE runs each job in the sequence until one of the following conditions is met:

All active remeshing rules are satisfied. For more information, see What are remeshing rules?.
All jobs are completed, indicating that Abaqus/CAE has reached the maximum number of analysis iterations that you specified.
A job fails to complete. This failure can be due to convergence difficulties or to machine resource problems.