Workshop 7C

Introduction to Contact

Contact and Target

Designation
REFERENCE:
Training Manual
Introduction to Contact (7-44)

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Demonstrate the importance of contact and target surface

designation for flexible-to-flexible contact analyses
Goal
Solve a nonlinear contact analysis and determine which
contact-target designation is appropriate
Model Description
Interference fit beams
Fixed between two walls

0.2 inches
interference fit

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Purpose

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1.

Open (or read in) the input file named BNL_W07C_contact-target.inp:

Use the GUI menu method:

Select the Open ANSYS File ICON

Select the file BNL_W07C_contact-target.inp

Click OK

Or Command Input Method:

/INPUT, BNL_W17_contact-target.inp

CONTACT surface

contact pair #1

TARGET surface

TARGET surface

contact pair #2

Note: This file consists of APDL input which

will automatically erase the current database
from previous session, change the jobname to
W07C-BNL. It will then generate the
geometry, including the contact pairs, define
the materials and apply boundary conditions to
begin the current exercise.

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Steps to Follow:

CONTACT surface
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Solve the contact interference analysis:

Main Menu > Solution > Solve > Current LS

[OK]
OR enter the following commands:
/SOLUTION
SOLVE

3.

Plot the y component of stress:

Main Menu > General Postproc > Plot Results

> Contour Plot > Nodal Solu

Stress

Y-direction SY

[OK]
OR enter the following commands:
/POST1
PLNSOL, S, Y

Why is the Y stress equal to

zero for these elements?

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Plot Contact Status:

Open Contact Manager

Highlight both Contact pairs in list

Choose Result Item Contact Status

Set Model context to Result - Translucent Mdl

Plot Results
OR enter the following command:
PLNSOL,CONT,STAT

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Closed and sticking

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Open but near contact

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Why wasnt contact detected for contact pair #1?
Contact is detected when a Gauss point penetrates the TARGET surface.
The Gauss points are always located on the CONTACT surface.
The CONTACT surface Gauss points are located as pictured below (denoted by an X).

For contact pair #1, the TARGET surface

has penetrated the CONTACT surface
in between the Gauss points!

CONTACT surface

Contact pair #2 has the correct

CONTACT-TARGET designation
for this model.

TARGET surface

X
contact pair #1

X
TARGET surface

X
contact pair #2

X
CONTACT surface

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