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

Hi Martin,

Thank you, I was not aware of the issue with contacts-flex-statics. I will try the debugging method you suggested.

I should clarify however that I have also tried removing the shells that i needed for the contacts from the flexible body, in order for it to not be included into contacts (I defined these bodes as separate rigid ones and fixed them on interface nodes of the flexbody) but the issue still persists.

Thanks for the tips!

Josef
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0 Josef K. over 2 years ago

Hi Martin,

Thank you, I was not aware of the issue with contacts-flex-statics. I will try the debugging method you suggested.

I should clarify however that I have also tried removing the shells that i needed for the contacts from the flexible body, in order for it to not be included into contacts (I defined these bodes as separate rigid ones and fixed them on interface nodes of the flexbody) but the issue still persists.

Thanks for the tips!

Josef
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