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Bonded Contact

Swaybar-Shaft Assembly

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A swaybar-shaft assembly is subjected to a vertical force of 500 kgf at the

right end of the swaybar. The objective is to determine the overall
stresses in the assembly.

Use bonded contact to simulate the assembly, and replace the right twothirds of the swaybar with a "rigid region" (constraint equations).

As a follow-up, join the two parts using a Boolean glue operation and redo
the analysis.

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Enter ANSYS in the working directory specified by your instructor using bondedcontact as the jobname.

2.

Read input from the file bonded-contact.inp to 1) mesh the model, 2) create rigid
links, and 3) apply constraints and loads:

Utility Menu > File > Read Input from

Or issue:
/INP,bonded-contact,inp

3.

Create the bonded contact elements between the shaft and the swaybar:
Procedure shown on
following pages

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a) Create the contact elements:

Main Menu > Preprocessor > -Modeling- Create > Contact Pair > Contact Wizard
Select Flexible and Areas, then [Pick Target ]
Pick area 48, then [OK]
HINT: drag mouse until Area 48 is selected or
type 48 into the input window, then Enter
For ambiguous pick, hit NEXT until 48 is selected

Pick [Next >]

Select Areas, then [Pick Contact ]
Pick area 22, then [OK]
Pick [Next >]
Pick [Optional settings ]
Set the Normal Penalty Stiffness to 100
Select Bonded (always) for
Behavior of contact surface
Select the Initial Adjustment tab
Select Exclude everything for
Initial penetration
[OK]
[Create >]
[Finish]

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b) select type 5 elements and their nodes and then plot the target surface contact
elements:

Utility Menu > Select > Entities ...

Main Menu > Preprocessor > -Modeling- Create > Contact Pair > View Pair

Select Target Surface and check normals shown under Options

[Display]

Utility Menu > Plot > Elements

Or issue:
ESEL,S,TYPE,,5
NSLE
/PSYMB,ESYS,1
/PNUM,TYPE,1
EPLOT

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c) Select type 6 elements and their nodes and then plot the contact surface contact
elements:

Utility Menu > Select > Entities ...

Main Menu > Preprocessor > -Modeling- Create > Contact Pair > View Pair

Select Contact Surface and check normals shown under Options

[Display]

Utility Menu > Plot > Elements

Or issue:
ESEL,S,TYPE,,6
NSLE
/PSYMB,ESYS,1
/PNUM,TYPE,1
EPLOT

d) Close the View Contact Pair window

[Close]

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Select everything, turn off all symbols except constraint equations, then plot
elements:

Utility Menu > Select > Everything

Utility Menu > PlotCtrls >Symbols > For Individual : Miscellaneous > Constraint Equations

Utility Menu > Plot > Elements

Or issue:
ALLSEL
/PBC,CE, ,1
/AUTO,1
EPLOT

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Enter the solution processor and turn off solution controls. Then choose the PCG
solver, set the number of equilibrium iterations to one, and solve:

Main Menu > Solution > Unabridged Menu

Main Menu > Solution > -Load Step Opts- Solution Ctrl ..

Set to Off, then [OK]

Main Menu > Solution > -Analysis Type- Soln Control ...

Pick the Soln Options tab

Select Pre-Condition CG

Pick the Nonlinear tab

Enter 1 for the number of Equilibrium Iterations

[OK]

Read and then close yellow warning message window

Pick the SAVE_DB button in the Toolbar

Main Menu > Solution > -Solve- Current LS

Or issue:
/SOLU

SOLCONTROL,OFF
EQSLV,PCG
NEQIT,1
SAVE

(or select: Utility Menu > File > Save as Jobname.db)

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Unselect element 8000 (MASS21 element), then enter POST1 and plot the nodal von
Mises stresses:

Utility Menu > Select > Entities ...

Main Menu > General Postproc > Plot Results > -Contour Plot- Nodal Solu ...
Or issue:
ESEL,U,,,8000
/POST1
/AUTO,1
PLNSOL,S,EQV

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Plot von Mises stresses for elements associated with volume component v_bar:

Utility Menu > Select > Comp/Assembly > Select Comp/Assembly

Utility Menu > Select > Everything Below > Selected Volumes

Main Menu > General Postproc > Plot Results > -Contour Plot- Nodal Solu ...
Or issue:
CMSEL,S,v_bar
ALLSEL,BELOW,VOLU
PLNSOL,S,EQV

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Plot von Mises stresses for elements associated with volume component v_shaft:

Utility Menu > Select > Comp/Assembly > Select Comp/Assembly

Utility Menu > Select > Everything Below > Selected Volumes

Main Menu > General Postproc > Plot Results > -Contour Plot- Nodal Solu ...
Or issue:
CMSEL,S,v_shaft
ALLSEL,BELOW,VOLU
PLNSOL,S,EQV

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Now rerun the stress analysis, with the swaybar and shaft volumes glued together, by
reading input from the file swaybar-shaft-glued.inp:

Utility Menu > File > Read Input from

Or issue:
/INP,swaybar-shaft-glued,inp

10. After the solution completes, the nodal solution for SEQV is displayed for the
swaybar (i.e. v_bar volume component):

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Utility Menu > Select > Comp/Assembly > Select Comp/Assembly

Utility Menu > Select > Everything Below > Selected Volumes

Main Menu > General Postproc > Plot Results > -Contour Plot- Nodal Solu ...
Or issue:
CMSEL,S,v_shaft
ALLSEL,BELOW,VOLU
PLNSOL,S,EQV

12. Exit ANSYS.

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11. Plot von Mises stresses for elements associated with volume component v_shaft:

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