output of gap elements in Abaqus CAE
output of gap elements in Abaqus CAE
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RE: output of gap elements in Abaqus CAE
CAE does not explicitly support gap elements, so I edited the commands and inserted manually the *GAP and *SURFACE INTERACTION in the *PART field. Is it sufficient to model the pressure-overclosure relationship or do I have to write a specific command in the *STEP field as well? How can I get in Abaqus Cae a plot for the pressure and clearance results on the gap elements?
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RE: output of gap elements in Abaqus CAE
I warmly thank you if you have any suggestion on how to write the command in CAE..
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RE: output of gap elements in Abaqus CAE
thank you very much for your interest.
For the abovementioned problem I do agree with you, non-linear springs would be sufficient to simulate the interaction.
I would anyway like to use gap contact elements in order to understand how they work, since in the future I will
have to substitute the deformable body with a granular material in which the fluid will penetrate causing
overclosure between the surfaces.
Reading the manual I found that element-based contact problems which use gap elements are able to simulate
overclosure. My problem now is to use them in Abaqus CAE, do you know if it is possible or how this could work?
Thank you very much,
Best regards
M.
RE: output of gap elements in Abaqus CAE
Gap element is a nonlinear spring. FE developers do not recommend using gap elements any longer; it was their initial attempt at modeling contact.
Whatever else you seem to be interested in modeling can be done using contact.
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