Contact Analysis: Tet vs. Brick Elements
Contact Analysis: Tet vs. Brick Elements
(OP)
Some coworkers insist that contact analyses between solids should be brick on brick...
why?
I can't find any good discussion on this and am not sure why they insist on it.
Any thoughts or references where I might learn more?
Thanks for the help.
why?
I can't find any good discussion on this and am not sure why they insist on it.
Any thoughts or references where I might learn more?
Thanks for the help.





RE: Contact Analysis: Tet vs. Brick Elements
For the first of the two algorithms mentioned above, it is nice and easy to defined contact if it is clearer when the two objects will impact and, in that case, I can see brick on brick being convenient. For the second of the options, element type isn't terribly meaningful.
I'm sure other implementations rely on other definitions.
RE: Contact Analysis: Tet vs. Brick Elements
thanks for the help GBor. I guess I should have started there...
RE: Contact Analysis: Tet vs. Brick Elements
RE: Contact Analysis: Tet vs. Brick Elements