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Session 60 Theory of Contact Analysis

This document discusses contact analysis in ANSYS. It defines contact conditions as occurring when two separate bodies touch without penetrating. Contact regions in ANSYS allow for normal and frictional forces. The document outlines the different contact types including bonded, no separation, frictionless, rough, and frictional contacts. It also discusses contact definition, scope, and advanced settings like pinball region size.

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Session 60 Theory of Contact Analysis

This document discusses contact analysis in ANSYS. It defines contact conditions as occurring when two separate bodies touch without penetrating. Contact regions in ANSYS allow for normal and frictional forces. The document outlines the different contact types including bonded, no separation, frictionless, rough, and frictional contacts. It also discusses contact definition, scope, and advanced settings like pinball region size.

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ELEATION’s ANSYS Basic to Professional

Training Program

Session 60: Theory of Contact Analysis


Recap…..!!!!
In Session 59 : We Have Learned
 How to perform Composite Analysis in ANSYS Software.
In Session 60 : We will learn
 What is Contact Analysis
 Type of contacts
Contacts

Contact conditions are created when an assembly is imported into the application and it
detects that two separate bodies (solid, surface, and line bodies) touch one another (they
are mutually tangent). Bodies/surfaces in contact:
• Do not “interpenetrate.”
• Can transmit compressive normal forces and tangential friction forces.
• Can be bonded together (Linear)
• Able to separate and collide (Nonlinear)

When a model is imported into Workbench Mechanical, the default setting of the
application automatically detects instances where two bodies are in contact and generates
corresponding Contact Region objects in the tree Outline.

When a Contact Region is selected in the Tree Outline, contact settings are available in
the Details view, and are included in the following categories:
Details view

• Scope : settings for displaying, selecting, or listing


contact and target geometries.
• Definition : commonly used contact settings.
• Advanced : advanced controls that are primarily
program controlled.
• Geometric Modification : settings for further
defining contact interface behaviors.
Scope

• Contact :
• Displays/selects which geometries
(bodies, faces, edges, or vertices) or mesh
entities (element faces) are considered as contact. The geometries can be
manually selected or automatically generated.

• For Face/Edge or Body/Edge contact, the edge must be designated as Contact.


Body scoping always includes all pertinent faces in the solution process.

• A contact pair can have a flexible-rigid scoping, but the flexible side of the pair
must always be the Contact side. If the Contact side of the contact pair is scoped
to multiple bodies, all of the bodies must have the same Stiffness Behaviour,
either Rigid or Flexible.
• Target :
• Displays which body element (body, face,
or edge) or mesh entities (element faces)
is considered Target (versus Contact). This element can be manually set or
automatically generated.

• For Face/Edge or Body/Edge contact, the face or body must be designated


as Target. Body scoping includes all pertinent faces in the solution process.

• If the Contact side of the contact pair has a flexible Stiffness Behaviour then
the Target side can be rigid.
Type of contacts

• Bonded : This is the default configuration and


applies to all contact regions (surfaces, solids,
lines, faces, edges). If contact regions are bonded,
then no sliding or separation between faces or edges is allowed. Think of the region as glued.

• No Separation : This contact setting is similar to the Bonded case. It only applies to regions
of faces (for 3D solids) or edges (for 2D plates). Separation of the geometries in contact is
not allowed..
• Frictionless : This setting models standard unilateral contact; that is, normal pressure
equals zero if separation occurs. Thus gaps can form in the model between bodies
depending on the loading. This solution is nonlinear because the area of contact may
change as the load is applied. A zero coefficient of friction is assumed, thus allowing free
sliding. The model should be well constrained when using this contact setting.
• Rough : Similar to the frictionless setting, this setting models perfectly rough frictional
contact where there is no sliding. It only applies to regions of faces (for 3D solids) or edges
(for 2D plates). By default, no automatic closing of gaps is performed. This case
corresponds to an infinite friction coefficient between the contacting bodies. [Not
supported for Explicit Dynamics analyses.]
• Frictional : In this setting, the two contacting geometries can carry shear stresses up to a
certain magnitude across their interface before they start sliding relative to each other.
This state is known as "sticking." The model defines an equivalent shear stress at which
sliding on the geometry begins as a fraction of the contact pressure. Once the shear stress
is exceeded, the two geometries will slide relative to each other. The coefficient of friction
can be any nonnegative value.
• Forced Frictional Sliding : In this setting, a tangent resisting force is applied at each
contact point. The tangent force is proportional to the normal contact force. This setting is
similar to Frictional except that there is no "sticking" state.
Advanced Settings

Pinball Region can be thought of as a sphere surrounding each contact detection point.
• Determines the depth at which initial penetration will be resolved if present.
• Set the pinball radius at least as large as the interference.
• If the Target surface is within this sphere, ANSYS will monitor its relationship to the
contact detection point more closely. If the target surfaces are outside of this
sphere, the interference might not initially be detected.
Thank you for attending Session 60
In session 61, we are going to cover:

 How to perform Contact Analysis - ANSYS

For any queries/doubts, feel free to contact us via:

query@eleation.com

www.eleation.com

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