CONNECTOR FRICTION 1

[nagananda]

Hallo,

I am using a connector element of type CARTESIAN+ROTATION and I wanted to have CONNECTOR FRICTION. I wrote in the input file as below.

*CONNECTOR BEHAVIOR, NAME=ROD_CLAMP
*CONNECTOR FRICTION
*FRICTION
0.4

But it gives error saying
***ERROR: NEITHER HAS THE COMPONENT PARAMETER BEEN
USED NOR HAS A *CONNECTOR POTENTIAL BEEN
DEFINED FOR A *CONNECTOR FRICTION OPTION.
EITHER THE COMPONENT PARAMETER MUST BE SPECIFIED
OR A *CONNECTOR POTENTIAL MUST BE DEFINED.

But I did not understand it. Hope to see a reply.

Thanking you,
Nagananda Krishna

 

[brep]

Your connector section has 6 CORMS available. When you define the friction behavior you have to specify which of these CORMS the slip direction applies in.

Eg. *Connector Criction, component=1
...
...

Hmm.. the error message says exactly this...

Anyway, I suggest you use /CAE to build a test model interactively and then look at the keywords it generates. The manuals have all the info in the too!