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Impact With Rigid Tutorial
Impact With Rigid Tutorial
Problem Description
An aluminum part is dropped onto a rigid surface. The objective is to investigate the stress and deformations during
the impact.
3. In the Create Part dialog box (shown above) name the part “Bracket”
a. Select “3D”
b. Select “Deformable”
c. Select “Solid”
d. Set approximate size = 200
e. Click “Continue…”
4. Create the geometry shown below (not discussed here). Dimensions are in millimeters.
a. Extrude the shape to a depth of 20.
a. Set the extrusion depth to 200 mm.
7. Create a datum point at the center of the plate (midway between diagonal points).
8. From the menu bar select Tools Reference Point
9. Create a surface on the rigid plate.
a. Click on the ToolsSurfaceCreate …
b. Select the rigid plate.
c. You will be prompted to pick a side for internal faces. Pick the color that is
likely candidate as the impact surface. In this example, “Brown” has been selected.
10. Double click on the “Materials” node in the model tree
a. Name the new material “Aluminum” and give it a description
b. Click on the “Mechanical” tabElasticityElastic
c. Define Young’s Modulus and the Poisson’s Ratio (use SI (mm) units)
i. Young’s modulus = 70e3, Poisson’s ratio = 0.33
d. Since this is an explicit model, material density must also be defined
e. Click on the “General” tab Density
i. Density = 2.6 e‐6
f. Click “OK”
14. Now, rotate the bracket so that the impact will occur at the lower right corner. This will ba
accomplished by rotating the object first with respect to the z‐axis followed by rotation about x‐axis.
a. Select “Rotate Instance” icon.
b. Select the Bracket
c. Accept the default values of starting point (0,0,0) by pressing “Enter”
d. Enter (0,0,1) for the end point of rotation axis.
e. Enter ‐15 (degrees) for Angle of Rotation.
The assembly should look similar to the screen shot
below. Be sure to confirm the final rotated position
by clicking on OK at the prompt region!
15. Now, rotate the bracket about the x‐axis.
a. Select “Rotate Instance” icon.
b. Select the Bracket
c. Accept the default values of starting point (0,0,0) by pressing “Enter”
d. Enter (1,0,0) for the end point of rotation axis.
e. Enter ‐15 (degrees) for Angle of Rotation. Be sure to confirm the final rotated position by
clicking on OK at the prompt region!
16. In the toolbox area click on the “Translate Instance” icon
a. Select the “Bracket” geometry, click “Done”
b. Select the bottom corner of the bracket as shown.
c. Select the reference point on the”Rigid” member as the end point.
d.
Click “Ok”
e. The completed assembly should now look like is shown below.
18. Double click on the “BCs” node in the model tree
a. Name the boundary condition “fix_rigid_plate” and select
“Symmetry/Antisymmetry/Encastre” for the type.
b. Select the reference point on the bracket geometry and click “Done”
c. Select “ENCASTRE” for the boundary condition and click “OK”
19. Open “Field Output Requests” node in the model tree
a. Double‐click on the “F‐Output‐1”.
b. Change the value of “Interval” to 100. This allows for
capturing of more output increments so that impact
can be better visualized.
c. You may wish to also change the “History output
Requests” to allow for better resolution of history
output plots.
b. On the Mechanical tab Select “Tangential Behavior”
i. Set the friction formulation to “Penalty”
ii. Set Friction Coefficient to 0.5
c. On the Mechanical tab Select “Normal Behavior”
d. Accept defaults,
Click “OK”
22. Double click on the “Interactions” node in the model tree
a. Name the interaction, select “General Contact (Explicit)
(Explicit)” and click “Continue…”
b. Select “All* with self” on the Edit Interactions Window.
c. Be sure to assign the appropriate interaction property under
“Global Property assignment in the Contact Properties tab of
the window.
d. Change the contact interaction properties to the one created
above (if not already done)
e. Click “OK”
24. In the model tree double click on “Mesh” for the Bracket part, or use the Module section of the icon panel as
shown.
a. Select “Explicit” for element type
b. Select “Quadratic” for geometric order
c. Select “3D Stress” for family
d. Select “Tet” tab and be sure the element is C3D10M
e. Select “OK”
You may check the “Mesh Control” to be sure only TET elements
are being used in meshing.
25. In the toolbox area click on the “Seed Part” icon
a. Under “Sizing Controls” set Approximate global size to 2, Click “OK”
26. In the toolbox area click on the “Mesh Part” icon
Caution: The mesh will exceed the ability of student version of the
software to solve. You need to use either Academic version or the
Research version to be able to run the job.
27. In the model tree double click on the “Job” node
a. Name the job
b. Give the job a description, click “Continue…”
c. Accept defaults, click “OK”
28. In the model tree right click on the job just created and select “Submit”
a. While Abaqus is solving the problem right click on the job submitted, and select “Monitor”
b. In the Monitor window check that there are no errors or warnings
i. If there are errors, investigate the cause(s) before resolving
ii. If there are warnings, determine if the warnings are relevant, some warnings can be safely
ignored. An example is “information” warning message below:
The option *boundary,type=displacement has been used; check status file between steps for warnings
on any jumps prescribed across the steps in displacement values of translational dof. For rotational dof
make sure that there are no such jumps. All jumps in displacements across steps are ignored
You’ll note that Artificial Energy is a very small portion of the overall Internal Energy, thus the model
seems to be valid, at least from the standpoint of element behavior and possibility of errors due to
meshing.