MSC NASTRAN CONTACT ANALYSIS WITH TRANSIENT LOADING

[niloy1]

Hi friends. I was doing a contact analysis problem in MSC Nastran. I need to apply transient load ( Time varying sinusoidal load) to the problem. Can i use SOL 400 for solving this. SOL 400 supports contact but does it support transient loadings. Please help

 

[FFB12]

You can use sol 112 for your transient analysis.
sol 112 supports contact

 

[dmapguru]

Hi,

Yes SOL 400 will solve transient nonlinear and transient linear problems. For touching contact, use the ANALYSIS type of NLTRAN and define your time stepping strategy on the NLSTEP entry.