During one of my recent trips, a question was raised about how LS-DYNA treats thick shells in contact in particular if the contact would detect the surface sides. This simulation Thickshells in contact shows that LS-DYNA treats the thickshells as solids in which all external (free) surfaces are included in the contact. ERODING contact would [...]
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Tolerance used for Tying Slave Nodes in TIED contacts
Published by October 15th, 2008 in LS-DYNA Contact. 2 CommentsTIED contacts help “bond” two surfaces of different mesh densities. When using the default constraint method, the projection distance of the slave node onto to the closest master segment must be zero and this is achieved by LS-DYNA by updating the slave node coordinates such that it lies on the master surface. This coordinate update [...]
It is well known that the presence of initial penetrations can spoil the accuracy of the analysis. A few days ago, while working on ODB barrier, some strange spikes in energies was suspicious even with IGNORE turned on. To understand this, I simply did a simple shakedown and generated some 100 d3plots to capture the [...]
Internal Contact for Solids using *SET_SEGMENT_GENERAL
Published by March 20th, 2008 in LS-DYNA Bytes and LS-DYNA Contact. 2 CommentsIn an earlier post on CONTACT INTERIOR , we saw how adding interior contact can help prevent negative volumes. An additional method that is available in LS-DYNA is the use of SET_SEGMENT_GENERAL to generate the interior segments of solids. When a list of parts are defined using PART_SLDIO in the SET_SEGMENT_GENERAL, LS-DYNA generates both external [...]
Here is a TAR file that consists of a simple setup to demonstrate TIEBREAK interface contact in LS-DYNA. The example can be used under TENSION, COMPRESSION, TORSION and PEELING type of load. acumulatori camere constructii interioare avion romania spania cablu electric camera digitala canon componente motor sofer curier plante de decor excursii roma montaj faianta [...]
Interior Contact for Foams, Honeycombs and Rubbers to eliminate Negative Volumes.
Published by January 24th, 2008 in LS-DYNA Bytes and LS-DYNA Contact. 3 CommentsUnder large compressive forces, elements belonging to either Foams, Honeycombs and Rubbers tend to invert causing numerical instabilities. To avoid such difficulties, which is one of the primary causes of simulation waste (unusable simulation results), a good set of modeling practices are first necessary as outlined in an earlier post . As an added protected [...]
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