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 Josef K. over 2 years ago

I am sorry Alexis. I was not clear on my question. I have already pre-processes the body and cleaned it up in order to be identical to a finite element model (with all shells connected at the nodes properly in order to get the .mnf file).

What I meant to ask was if there are any practices which can help me better model my system (rather than just replacing the rigid body with its flexible counterpart).

Thank you and sorry for not being clear,

Josef
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0 Josef K. over 2 years ago

I am sorry Alexis. I was not clear on my question. I have already pre-processes the body and cleaned it up in order to be identical to a finite element model (with all shells connected at the nodes properly in order to get the .mnf file).

What I meant to ask was if there are any practices which can help me better model my system (rather than just replacing the rigid body with its flexible counterpart).

Thank you and sorry for not being clear,

Josef
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