Section 15 Contact Modeling

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Contact Modeling
Applications | Analysis | Structural | Contact

Feature based contact pair Identification Automated File based contact creation. Supports contact definition for Abaqus, Permas and Ansys solvers.

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Feature based contact pair identification

Contact pairs either planar / cylindrical / both between bodies within a specified tolerance can be identified automatically.

Planar Contact Pairs

Cylindrical Contact Pairs

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Contact Modeling

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File Based Contact Creation

Contact definition between bodies / node sets / element sets / groups can be defined in a text file (*.dat).

File based contact definition can be imported and contacts will be created automatically between the specified entities. Node sets / Element sets / Groups have to be pre-defined before importing the contact definition file.

Contact definition file can be exported from SimLab. This improves modelling robustness and consistent contact definitions to avoid errors.

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File Based Contact Creation

Contact definition file template :

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Surface Based Interaction

Surface Interaction for Contact Analysis can be defined using Applications | Analysis | Structural | Surface Interaction Surface Behaviour - No Separation,

Hard, Tabular, Exponential and Gap

Conductance.

Pressure Over Closure

(Pressure vs Over Closure)

Conductance
(Conductance vs Clearance vs

Temperature)

Friction Coefficient

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Surface Interaction
Abaqus Change Friction card supported to vary the friction properties from one load step to another load step.

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Press Fit
Clearance and Interference for contact analysis can be defined using the following tool. This tool is available in Contact Dialog.

Amplitude curve for Abaqus contact interference can be defined.

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Contact
Option to set user desired master and slave surface name is supported. This option can be used by right clicking the contact in Lbc tree.