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Surface-to-Surface Contact - define Contact Property

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ThomasMabau

Mechanical
Apr 4, 2018
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Hi,

due to my Masterthesis i have to analyse two welded bodys (in Attachment). There will be a thermal and a mechanical analyse of the model.
The two blocks (same material) should be welded together. Heat, strains etc. should be transfered as it would only be one piece.
At a later step i will seperate the two parts (remove the welding) and analyse the behaviour/strains of each part. The lower body is encastré.

Firstly i created a Tied-Contact Pair between the parts. The problem is, you cant remove Tied-Contacts in a step. (see this Thread)

Therefore i created an Surface-to-Surface Interaction between the two surfaces. Here i should be able to remove it in a step.

My question is how can i define the Contact Property in this case?
At this point i got these settings:

(mechanical)
- For Tangential Behaviour i chose Friction formulation: Rough -> no sliding in tangential direction
- For Normal Behavior i chose Hard Contact as Pressure-Overclosure and Penalty (Standard) as Constrain enforcement method

(thermal)
- For Thermal Conductance i got a value of 1e6. I want to reach a complete heat transfer. There shouldn`t be Radiation in my model.

If i compare my results of the Tied-Contact with the results of surface-to-surface Interaction, they are different.
How can i improve the settings? Have i forgotten anything?


regards,
Thomas
 
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