Normal force from contact pressure (CPRESS in Abaqus)
Normal force from contact pressure (CPRESS in Abaqus)
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First of all, hello to everybody. This is my first post here but I already use this very forum as a source of information :)
My problem is this the next:
I'm doing some basic contact analysis in AbaqusCAE 6.7. I have two 3D solids which are in contact (2 planar surfaces). As a result I get a contact pressure distribution (CPRESS) on the bottom solid. Now I would like to get an equivalent normal force from these result but I don't know how. Could anyobody help me please?
On this picture you can see the contact pressure distribution:
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/2005/cpress.jpg
My problem is this the next:
I'm doing some basic contact analysis in AbaqusCAE 6.7. I have two 3D solids which are in contact (2 planar surfaces). As a result I get a contact pressure distribution (CPRESS) on the bottom solid. Now I would like to get an equivalent normal force from these result but I don't know how. Could anyobody help me please?
On this picture you can see the contact pressure distribution:
http://img256.imageshack.us/img256/2005/cpress.jpg





RE: Normal force from contact pressure (CPRESS in Abaqus)
Ed.R.
RE: Normal force from contact pressure (CPRESS in Abaqus)
RE: Normal force from contact pressure (CPRESS in Abaqus)
Ed.R.
RE: Normal force from contact pressure (CPRESS in Abaqus)
RE: Normal force from contact pressure (CPRESS in Abaqus)
RE: Normal force from contact pressure (CPRESS in Abaqus)
I would advise you read the section on contacts "Abaqus Analysis Manual" if you haven't done that already. You would be in fully control of your Abaqus Contact simulation once you grasp the theory behind the formulation Abaqus uses and you would be able to detect when Abaqus computes a seemingly "wrong" Forces or body Stresses..