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CONNECTOR FRICTION

CONNECTOR FRICTION

CONNECTOR FRICTION

(OP)
Hallo,

I am using a connector element of type CARTESIAN+ROTATION and I wanted to have CONNECTOR FRICTION. I wrote in the input file as below.

*CONNECTOR BEHAVIOR, NAME=ROD_CLAMP
*CONNECTOR FRICTION
*FRICTION
   0.4

But it gives error saying
***ERROR: NEITHER HAS THE COMPONENT PARAMETER BEEN
          USED NOR HAS A *CONNECTOR POTENTIAL BEEN
          DEFINED  FOR A *CONNECTOR FRICTION OPTION.
          EITHER THE COMPONENT PARAMETER MUST BE SPECIFIED
          OR A *CONNECTOR POTENTIAL MUST BE DEFINED.

But I did not understand it. Hope to see a reply.

Thanking you,
Nagananda Krishna

RE: CONNECTOR FRICTION

Your connector section has 6 CORMS available. When you define the friction behavior you have to specify which of these CORMS the slip direction applies in.

Eg. *Connector Criction, component=1
...
...

Hmm.. the error message says exactly this...

Anyway, I suggest you use /CAE to build a test model interactively and then look at the keywords it generates. The manuals have all the info in the too!

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