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bond and debond

Thread starter cranaero09
Start date Jun 17, 2009

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Jun 17, 2009

cranaero09

Aerospace

Dear All,

I am trying to model a crack with the debond command. I would like to know:

1- The debond command can be used only from the input file?

2- How do I bond the element together.

I have created a seam where I have duplicated the nodes along the path of my long crack. Since I want to study the crack at smaller length I would like to bond the nodes together to make a shorter crack. How is it possible?

Many thanks,
Cranaero09