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Concact surface length piston and cylinder in Ansys

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itsdark

Mechanical
Oct 21, 2012
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Hi everyone,

I am quite new to the world of ANSYS APDL and FEA so don't have much experience. I am trying to conduct a contact analysis of a polumer coated piston pushed against a cylinder wall. I have created a simple 2-D model and obtained a solution which is giving me values for contact stress that seem reasonable but, I want to know the length of the piston circumference actually in contact with the cylinder when subjected to this load. I was wondering how I do this on Mechanical APDL. Any help would be very much appreciated.
 
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