Relative contact motion

[yaston4]

Please help, I really need some inspiration from other FEA users.

I have a problem involving contact between two objects, and the objects move relative to each other, could you please share some experiences of how you achieve this in FEA programmes. I am currently using ABAQUS.

Thank-you.

 

[IanME]

First of all note that there is an ABAQUS specific forum within the 'Engineering Computer Programs' subset.

I can't speak to ABAQUS but in ANSYS you would achieve this with a coupling constraint. A quick google for 'Abaqus Coupling Constraint' provided what appears to be some valuable information....

Hope that helps,
-Ian


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