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  1. CassandraW

    Contact problems

    Thank you. Changing to consistent units is now giving the right stress and contact pressure distributions.
  2. CassandraW

    Contact problems

    Yeah lets call the radii a typo not me failing to double check the word document where I had this all written down. I'll correct the Young's modulus and density when I go back to work tomorrow. For a 8000kg/m3 density in to consistent units it would be 8e-3 tonne/mm3?
  3. CassandraW

    Contact problems

    I'm trying to solve a very simple problem in Abaqus as a step towards validating and creating the far more complicated model I need to solve. I have two perpendicular half cylinders, they are each 1000mm long with a radius of 250mm. A fixed constraint is applied to the base of one cylinder. A...

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