Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations MintJulep on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Abaqus explcit and anisotropic friction

Status
Not open for further replies.

Philipp7

Mechanical
Jun 26, 2012
1
Hi,

So I have this model of a three-roll-pushbending process. It consists of a tube (Shell element, S4R) and the rigid Rolls and some connectors for the translation ( also damping etc...).
The rolls are not rotating in this model, so I simply wanted to assign them a friction coefficient in the direction of the axis of the tube.
Since the tube rotates around its own axis, I also need a different friction coefficient in the "Z-direction".

I'm using the explicit solver and abaqus only a allows anisotropic friction with the standard one.
So I'm looking for solutions...The easier the better ;)

1. I thought about changing the model to implicit solver. But abaqus won't let me. I don't know why, since my mesh types are all avaible of implizit as well...
Any Ideas?

2. I thought about keeping it explicit and to let the rolls rotate around a bearing. So I can assign one friction coeff. between bearing and roll and one between tube and roll.

So let me know what you think and if there is a better solution I didn't think of
Thanks!

Philipp
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor