2. I am modeling the contact between a cylinder and a
plate in 2D.
3. The Cylinder material is given is ELASTIC ISOTROPIC
material with no plasticit E=310 GPa
4. The plate is with a Ramberg-Osgood plasticity with a
Young's modulus E=210 GPa.
5. The mesh at the the contact point is VERY refined
element characteristic length is about 1 micron. (My model units are (mm,N,sec)).
6. I validate my model with hertz contact theory and it
works well.
7. I try to validate with mindlin theory (Pressure and
shear), when I plot the pressure profile at the contact zone I get a well behaved curve. However, the Shear at the contact zone is NOT well behaved, it shows alot of fluctuations and noisy response.
8. I tried to modify the mesh size at the contact zone
(increased in fact) but the response is still the same.
P.S. if I remove PLASTICITY from the model, it works fine
both in NORMAL pressure and IN SHEAR.
Question:
1. How can this be corrected ?
2. Is there a particular plastic model that I should used (my material is a metal) ?
3. can CONTACT CONTROLS be used to remedy this? if yes, how