Dear Sree,

You should request the contact force on “General Contact Surface” domain in History Output. You can select the surface of the interaction. I attached the screenshot of this module.

I hope it helps you.

Kind Regards,

Busra BARTAN KUMBASAR

Hey!

If you are referring to the "TOTAL" Reaction force acting on the body, the body can be coupled to a point during the model setup stage.

After the analysis, the Reaction force can be checked at this node which gives you the total reaction force.

Another method of finding out the Total Reaction Force without going in to the model setup stage would be to obtain the reaction forces at all the nodes on the body and obtain the average of the forces.

Hope it help

Thank you

go to the result

in that choose the object.

after that choose the reaction force from the drop down list box

then it shows the reaction force of your object.

Busra Bartan Kumbasar R.D.Vignesh devendiran Shravan Kumar Shivakumar : Thank you for the positive response, actually in my model the sphere and the plate is separated by certain distance apart. Top surface of the Sphere is arrested to move in the Y-direction and i am giving body force component on to that body. I just wanted to calculate the TOTAL REACTION FORCE (not individual nodal force) exerted on the body.

As R.D.Vignesh devendiran pointed out to choose the reaction force from the drop down list. But it will not show the total reaction force. So i guess whether we need to select all nodes from TOOLS---QUERY----PROBE VALUES-----SELECT ALL NODES and apply the same. Whether it is the right procedure?

Shravan Kumar Shivakumar : In this case when the body can be coupled to a point will i be getting total reaction force. Hope you got my problem definition. If it can done please can you share the procedure for adopting the same.

Busra Bartan Kumbasar : Since the sphere and rigid plate is placed at sufficient distance apart and also the top surface of the sphere in the VERTICAL DIRECTION is arrested so maximum REACTION FORCE might occur at the top of the surface. So will the above mentioned step as quoted by you is necessary. Hope you understood the problem kindly respond regarding this same.

Yes. You would be getting the total reaction force acting on the body.

Procedure:

Interactions>interaction> Coupling> Kinematic Coupling> Select the Reference point for the coupling and the entire surface of the sphere for the surface to be coupled.

The reference point can be created anywhere on the body before starting the procedure.

Thank you

Hi Sree Sastha ,

I think you have to process your data in the output file like you make the sum of individal node reactions.

Hi,

you can get the total foreces by the following steps. Results> ODB history output> continue> select all forces> save as > then select the option of sum((xy,xy,...))> Ok

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