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find out contact area between two bodies

find out contact area between two bodies

find out contact area between two bodies

(OP)
Hi everyone,
Is there a way to find out contact area between two bodies.
thanks
regards
james

RE: find out contact area between two bodies

Do you want do compute the area between two volumes? If yes, you could intersect the areas of the 2 volumes (VGLUE), then select the intersecting area (ASEL) and compute it with ASUM.

regards
Alex

RE: find out contact area between two bodies

(OP)
I want to know contact area after applying the loads. SO I wrote a macro that will do that.. I dont know if that works..i haventhad the time to do that..I will do it later
amit

!**create a element table containing the contact status of each element

ESEL,S,ETAB,CONTSTAT,1,1, ,0        !selcts element based on contact status

*get,elem_count,elem,count        !returns number of elemetnt with correct select status
previous_elem=0
*do,i,1,elem_count
    
    *get,current_elem,elem,previous_elem,nxth    !next element number in selected set
    *get,current_area,elem,current_elem,area,vol    !returns the element volumes (I think for an area element this will return the area)    
    contact_area=contact_area+current_area
*enddo

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