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Trouble making a model

Trouble making a model

Trouble making a model

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Hi guys,

I'm very new to Abaqus, so I'm seeking for help.

I want to bend a beam by imposing a rotational displacement on a rigid body. I want to achieve this by rotating this body, clamping the beam at the top and having a roller constraint between beam and body. Please look at attached sketch.

However I don't know how to set this up/I keep running into difficulties, especially with the roller constraint.
Or if you guys know any tutorials that are similar, let me know.

Regards,
Marijn

RE: Trouble making a model

Hi,

I've done this before using MPC type SLIDER. MPC stands for multi-point constraint. You could read about it in the Users manual:

35.2.2 General multi-point constraints

Dave

RE: Trouble making a model

Free yourself from the image. You don't need the rigid body to get that behavior. Use that MPC or Connector of type Translator.

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