Wheel FEA in Solidworks

[RickySchoelman]

I trying to run a FEA in Solidworks on a steel wheel on a flat plate and I am having trouble with an infinite amount of stress along the contact area "strip or line" between the plate and wheel, since the steel wheel doesn't compress and provide an area like a rubber wheel would.

Does anyone have any advice on running this FEA or determining what material to use?

 

[TVP]

What type of model/analysis are you running? Static analysis using only an elastic material model? Nonlinear analysis using a rigid-plastic model? Nonlinear with elastic-plastic model? You should probably post this in one of the FEA forums to obtain more information on best practice for modeling this type of contact.