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Modeling a Dowel

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human123

Structural
Oct 29, 2011
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Hello,
I have a problem modeling a dowel column-beam connection. The dowel has a circular section. It is put trough the beam. There is a steel rectengular tube that goes throughout the whole beam heigth. Between the tube and the dowel there is a mortar feeling.
How do you advise me to model the contact beetween dowel and mortar? If I am more specific, I have a problem meshing these to together. Should I use Merge/Cut tool to Merge the meshes? Should I use contact interactions? Which finite element type should I use?
Thank you
 
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