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
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
Eg. *Connector Criction, component=1
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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!