Abaqus - Contact Simulation. Unable to achieve contact

[OmerSiddiqui]

Hello everyone

I am new to this group. I am currently doing project on freewheel device and i am trying to simulate a contact model of freewheel mechanism using ABAQUS.

I have made the CAD on SolidWokrs and imported the assembly file (format : Parasolid *x_t). I followed the general procedures for simulating 'Surface-to-Surface' contact.

But so far, I am unable to achieve the contact. The models just simply pass by each other.

 

[IceBreakerSours]

In all likelihood, you have only assigned tangential contact and no normal contact.

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[nithinsharma]

@Ice Breaker,

Even i looked at the .cae file myself and worked on it before, he has assigned normal contact to the model.

Nithin

 

[corus]

Are the two objects too far apart to make contact so that it only appears that they are passing through each other because the displacements have been scaled up?