Volume to area connect

[amin86]

Hi

I have a concrete wall, i want to connect a connect a steel plate to it and a W section frame is connected through the plate to the wall.
I mesh the plate and W sections with SHELL181 elements and the concrete wall with SOLID65.

(See the attached picture)

I apply loads to the wall, the wall moves but the plate and W sections don't. How can i connect a meshed volume to a shell element area??

Thanks in advance

 

[omidomidi]

you have to mesh your volume and area in the way that nodes of the volume mesh and area mesh lie on each other.after that using "merge items" or "coincide nodes" you can attach your volume and area meshes together.

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[flash3780]

From the picture, it looks as though you can simply use a contact pair to connect the solids to the shells and call it a day.

Often solid-shell element connections require constraint equations to capture the behavior properly, since shell elements have an extra degree of freedom. However, for situations such as lap-joints, surface-to-surface contact works just fine.