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Surface contact, single part analysis?

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drpalo
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Surface contact, single part analysis?

Good morning all,

 

Can a part have surface contact with itself? For example, a structure imported as a solid CAD model that buckles onto itself but does not penetrate itself?

 

Thanks.

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xli
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in reply to: drpalo

Hi,

 

If you are making a MES model, make the surfaces of contacted portion not exactly matched, then in MES surface contact UI you would be ale to define the contact pair of same part/surfaces.

 

If you use LSS, you probably also have to make the contact portion slightly seperated and then manually define some gap elements there to simulation the contact.

 

-xli

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zhuangs
in reply to: drpalo

If MES is used, in the general surface-to-surface panel, you can define the contact pair:
(1) if you know the two surface ID (such as 1, 2) of the surfaces in the same part, you can define the contact pair as
Part/surface 1 with part/surface 2
(2) otherwise, set part with part

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