I am simulating four point bending in ANSYS APDL. I used contact analysis for that excluding penetration. After, some load step rollers started penetrating the panel.
Does anyone know what the reason behind this is?
HI Yagnik,
You should first check if the penetration is actual or "visual" by monitoring the nodal displacements. Then try to adjust the contact properties and formulation (pure penalty, augmented Lagrange, stiffness etc.). Mesh density is also important in the contact definition.
Regards,
George
The choice of source and destination in the contact pair will have an impact on the convergence. The contact boundaries should be resolved by at least a few mesh elements. The destination boundary of the contact pair should be meshed finer than the source boundary, at least by a factor 2. Also, a coarse mesh on a curved contact surface may lead to convergence problems.
Sometimes the pressure upon contact goes up steeply at the time of contact. Check that by plotting pressure v/s time. Try augmented Lagrange method.
thank you very much for helping.
@George
you are right. The problem is with normal stiffness. I have to modify that carefully.
@ Angshuman
I am following same concept while doing contact analysis. but I have never seen pressure v/s time plot. I should consider that in my study.
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