Workshop 17a: Bonded

Contact
15.0 Release

Introduction to Mechanical
APDL (MAPDL)
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We will establish bonded contact between two overlapping plates

Bonded contact
between plates
where they overlap

Fixed at
Tip nodes
base
coupled in UZ

Net force
applied to tip

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Read in “bonded_plates.inp” to create model with applied BCs.

On the Command Line:

/input,bonded_plates,inp

Observe:

Plates: SOLID186 mesh

• Nodes at base are constrained in UX/UY/UZ.

• Nodes along upper edge of tip are coupled in UZ.
• Net tip force is applied to the master node of the CP set.

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Use the Contact Manager to bring up the Contact Wizard

1: the Contact Manager

2 button is at upper right
corner of the GUI

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Declare the upper surface of the lower plate to be the target surface

LMB

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Proceed to the next step…

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Declare the lower surface of the upper plate to be the contact surface

LMB

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Proceed to the next step…

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We will set some optional settings before creating the contact pair…

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Use the MPC algorithm with bonded contact. The contact detection setting is not
particularly important for this particular model, but for MPC contact, the “On
nodes-Normal from Contact” invokes the “force distributed constraint” which
allows the contact surface to flex and may be preferred over the “rigid surface
constraint” option.

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Create the contact pair. The contact
elements will be displayed once they
are created with symbols indicating
their surface normals.

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Solve the model

Or on the Command Line:

finish
/solu
solve

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Plot the Z component of displacement
Or on the Command Line:

finish
/post1
plnsol,u,z,2

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Edit the input file (“bonded_plates.inp”) with Notepad. Change the value of
parameter “k_complete” to 1 to have contact pair automatically defined by
APDL in the input file. Read in the input file to automate the entire run.

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k_complete=1 => APDL used to create contact pair automatically with select
logic, direct generation (ESURF command).

Alternate strategy for creating

contact elements using APDL

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