Hello Guys,
I am wondering how to mesh the part in the picture. I want to have a precice mesh in the outer layer (size ~0.5), following a tet mesh to combine it to the inner part that should be a size of around ~2.5 like the global mesh. Since only the outer layer is involved in the contact, I...
Hi Guys,
I've got a question concerning the material calibration in Abaqus for a Hertzian pressing model of two two cylinders. I'm not quite sure about my contact area so I modeled a combined volume in CAD and ran some simulations with varying my Youngs Modulus of the softer part. Now I am a...
Many thanks for your advice. I've got a final question regarding the contact forces. Maybe I have an incorrect understanding of the way Abaqus is calculating the forces. In the field output (where the part is displayed with the colored forces acting on the nodes) I've got much lower forces than...
Thanks for your reply. In order to displace the part I've coupled a rigid body's RP (same diameter, RP placed in the center) to the outer surface of the part and I am displacing this RP. Isn't that a boundary condition with DOF in the U1 direction?
I have build a contact simulation (surface to surface, hard contact) in Abaqus in which a concave part is pushed against a convex part by a simple displacement along the U1 Axis. The main goal is to get the contact force. The result is quite fine, but I've got two problems.
1. It seems like...
