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Glued connection in Abaqus

Glued connection in Abaqus

Glued connection in Abaqus

(OP)
Hello,

I am a new user of Abaqus and need to model a glued connection between 2 solid elements (the nodes on both elements must have same displacement, no relative movement between them). In other software (cosmos/m for instance) this is accomplished by merging these overlapping nodes.

I need to do this in Abaqus, looked in the huge Abaqus documentation, but it is hard to find this for complete beginner. Please help.

RE: Glued connection in Abaqus

Hi,

You can use tie constraint in Abaqus to join parts without relative displacement. The parts may have different number of elements. To do this, you need to make surfaces and then assign tie constraint.

Regards

Aamir

RE: Glued connection in Abaqus

(OP)
Thanks very much,
I will try this..

regards,
Dean

RE: Glued connection in Abaqus

abakus666:

Have you try it yet?  How is it?

br,
Duncan

RE: Glued connection in Abaqus

One easy way to solve the problem is to define a tied contact.

1. Define individual element sets for the faces facing each other (web/flange).

2. Define a contact pair using the *CONTACT, TIE facility

etc...

This feature is well documented, just look for "tied contact".

Live Long and Prosper

RE: Glued connection in Abaqus

Oops... someone had already given you the same advice... anyway, it works just fine.

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