large flexible body

Hello,

I want to model a system which includes a large body that I want to model as flexible. Are there any efficient ways of doing this? I am asking because I also want to define contacts including said body, making the computations quite time consuming.

P.S.

The body is actually comprised of various smaller ones which are bolted together. Instead of creating multiple bodies and then fixing them at the bolt locations with joints, I decided to model it as a single body.

Thanks,

Josef

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0 Alexis Del Rio over 2 years ago

Hi Josef,

I don't think this is going to work. Shell graphics in Adams are there just for visualisation, as such these aren't normally water tight hence the surface won't be continue, smooth... I'm not sure you can make Adams to understand that two different shells are to be joined since they may not be necessarily coincident. Best approach is to open these shell graphics in MSC.Apex and clean it up there, if you have tokens you only need to download/install the software and is a pretty straight forward job.
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0 Alexis Del Rio over 2 years ago

Hi Josef,

I don't think this is going to work. Shell graphics in Adams are there just for visualisation, as such these aren't normally water tight hence the surface won't be continue, smooth... I'm not sure you can make Adams to understand that two different shells are to be joined since they may not be necessarily coincident. Best approach is to open these shell graphics in MSC.Apex and clean it up there, if you have tokens you only need to download/install the software and is a pretty straight forward job.
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