find out contact area between two bodies

[james80]

Hi everyone,
Is there a way to find out contact area between two bodies.
thanks
regards
james

 

[meshparts]

Do you want do compute the area between two volumes? If yes, you could intersect the areas of the 2 volumes (VGLUE), then select the intersecting area (ASEL) and compute it with ASUM.

regards
Alex

 

[james80]

I want to know contact area after applying the loads. SO I wrote a macro that will do that.. I dont know if that works..i haventhad the time to do that..I will do it later
amit

!**create a element table containing the contact status of each element

ESEL,S,ETAB,CONTSTAT,1,1, ,0 !selcts element based on contact status

*get,elem_count,elem,count !returns number of elemetnt with correct select status
previous_elem=0
*do,i,1,elem_count

*get,current_elem,elem,previous_elem,nxth !next element number in selected set
*get,current_area,elem,current_elem,area,vol !returns the element volumes (I think for an area element this will return the area)
contact_area=contact_area+current_area
*enddo