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Tutorial 15
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Tutorial 15
Connecting
Parts with a
Tied Interface
Problem description
Outline Mesh independent connection of two parts modeled with shell elements
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Background information
Length: 50 mm
Width: 20 mm
Thickness: 2 mm
Loading: Part 1 has one end fixed; part 2 is pulled with an imposed velocity.
Material: Steel material data: E=210 kN/mm2, ν=0.3 and density 7.8*10-6 kg/mm3).
Adhesive: stiffness unknown.
Supplied datasets:
No datasets or meshes are needed to tackle the problem; the mesh will be generated as a part of the
exercise.
It is recommended that you use the following names for the VPS/PAM-CRASH input and results files:
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Start Visual Crash for PAM (VCP) and activate the Visual-Mesh context. The context bar is normally
located on the left side of the screen.
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1. Go to 2D>Transform
2. Select option Translation
3. Verify that Offset is selected
4. Click on Shell button
5. Select all elements of part 1
6. Input the exact offset value:
dx=0, dy=40, dz=-2.
The 2 mm gap in Z between the shell
parts corresponds to their thickness. The
adhesive thickness is neglected.
7. Click on Update Entities you get a
preview of the transformation
8. Choose Copy
9. Assign a new Part ID (2) to the new part
10. Click Copy to finish creating part 2
11. Removing “coincident nodes”: Click
Checks > Coincident Nodes. Select
Check > Fuse all then APPLY and
Close.
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Remark: Instead of File > Save, it is possible to use File > Export to save data in a solver input file
format (.pc) format. However, some of the information, like geometry data would be lost.
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3. Activate the required constraint: X, Y, Z for translational and U, V, W for rotational degrees of
freedom. Choose “1”, meaning constrained, for all degrees of freedom
4. Choose an appropriate title for the constraint; e.g. “Fixed_End_of_PART1”
5. Save the condition with Apply and Close.
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1. Material data for material data such as modulus, density and plasticity information.
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Part data
1. In the explorer panel open the Parts folder
2. Double click the required part and define thickness and material data as indicated on the picture.
3. Finish with Apply and Close.
4. Repeat previous step for Part n°2
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Title
1. In the explorer panel, develop Control, then
New. Click on Basic Controls.
2. Select the following options: ANALYSIS,
INPUTVERSION, TITLE
3. In the Basic Controls panel, select TITLE
4. A title can now be added. It will appear in
Visual Viewer results.
5. Finish with Apply and Close.
6. Similar steps for INPUTVERSION with 2013
7. For ANALYSIS, select Explicit
For the ouput control (OCTRL): right click on Pam controls and select advanced control
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If the dataset is valid, it will proceed through the dataset initialization phase into the solution phase. If
there are data errors the run will stop with an abnormal termination message. Inspect the output file for
errors (search for ‘ERROR’ and investigate). Correct the dataset; preferably in VISUAL CRASH (or in
the editor) and run the analysis again.
The solver progression can be monitored by the information displayed in the listing windows:
CYCLE TIME TIME-STEP ELEMENT NO DTMIN FAC. KINETIC EN INTERNAL EN TOTAL EN DTMIN NB.
6190 0.9512E+01 0.1483E-02 SHELL 119 0.1000E+01 0.2104E+00 0.7129E+03 0.8667E-01 0
Once the message NORMAL TERMINATION appears in the listing windows, you can proceed to Part 4,
results evaluation:
N O R M A L T E R M I N A T I O N
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Three files are available for results visualization which depend of the
OUTPUT_FILE_FORMAT specified in the OCTRL section:
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4. Click PLOT.
• stress-strain variables for elements to be selected in VCP (output > Nodal Time History)
• Node kinematics for the nodes selected in VCP (output > Nodal Time History)
• Forces in the tied interface forces (select SECTION entity type)
Animation
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Contour of stresses
Some shell elements of part 1 and part 2 have non-physical deformations They are actually zero-energy
modes that occur in under-integrated element formulations. They are called hourglass modes due to
the shape of the elements.
We will next overcome these two problems by using an elastic-plastic material model for parts 1 and 2.
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2. Open the material editor and create a new material (you may also modify the existing material).
4. Assign a new name to this material, for example you can call it
“Material_Elastic_Plastic”(highlighted in the purple color)
5. Input parameters as in the following screen shot (highlighted in the red and brown color)
7. If you created a new material, assign it to part 1 and part 2 by editing Part data
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Key results
• The new stresses have
normal values, and no
hourglass deformation is
observed.
• The plates plastify and limit
the effort in the link to about
52 kN. (Click on the force
curve to display min/max
information in the console).
Possible extension
The maximum force in the link is 52 kN (. For an area of 20 x 60 = 1200 mm2, this gives an approximate
stress of 43 MPa. The adhesive may not sustain such a high stress. The exercise can be extended by
the introduction of a rupture model (RUPMO in VCP auxiliary folder).
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