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Has anyone had success using a flex body to solid contact?

My simulations consitently have a large stress concentration at the interface node.
 
Thank you,
Jon
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  • Hi Jon,
     
    flex-to-solid contact has been used for a long time by various customers across different industries.
     
    To me it seems as if you do not have proper RBE element definition and/or perhaps proper interface node definition.
     
    For example, if the interface node is only connected to a few slave nodes on the mesh, then these nodes and this their elements will be responsible for bearing the reaction forces/torques. This is while in reality, there is a larger surface or volume that bears the reaction forces/torques. Therefore a proper selected slave nodes can fix such issue.
     
    HTH.
    Maziar
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  • Hi Jon,
     
    flex-to-solid contact has been used for a long time by various customers across different industries.
     
    To me it seems as if you do not have proper RBE element definition and/or perhaps proper interface node definition.
     
    For example, if the interface node is only connected to a few slave nodes on the mesh, then these nodes and this their elements will be responsible for bearing the reaction forces/torques. This is while in reality, there is a larger surface or volume that bears the reaction forces/torques. Therefore a proper selected slave nodes can fix such issue.
     
    HTH.
    Maziar
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