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Interfacing Shell and Solid elements in ANSYS

Interfacing Shell and Solid elements in ANSYS

Interfacing Shell and Solid elements in ANSYS

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I am trying to model a steel Box girder with concrete deck in ANSYS by using the Shell element for girder and solid element for deck.  Is there any recommend way to connect the interface between 6-DOFs shell(Upper flange of girder) and 3-DOFs solid elements(bottom surface of deck) without inconsistence?

I will appriciate for any comments from you.
looking forward to hear from you.

RE: Interfacing Shell and Solid elements in ANSYS

Have a look into the CE family of commands, in particular the CEINTF command, which will do precisely what you're after. See also:

Main Menu>Preprocessor>Coupling / Ceqn>Adjacent Regions

in the GUI.

The best of luck,

-- drej --

RE: Interfacing Shell and Solid elements in ANSYS

don“t know which version you are running, but in new 8.0 there is the MPC-Algorithm available in the contact wizard. Create a surface-to-surface contact by contact and target and set the contact behavior to bonded. It works fine and allows you to connect shell-to-shell (e.g different mesh size), shell-to-solid and solid-to solid in 3D.

Regards Sven

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