About master and slave SLIDE contact

Altair Forum User · December 2015

hello everyone

I am performing Slide contact between the pin and plate forming the revolute joint. in radioss

initially i have performed analysis with pin as MASTER and that plate with SLAVE found ans with stresses at about 200mpa

then i changed the combination with pin as SLAVE and plate as MASTER now i am getting results about 10mpa

so why is this drastic differenece????????????

which one is correct??????????/

Rahul Rajan_21763 · January 2016

What type of contact interface you are using?

link for downloading Free Ebook .(Crash analysis with Radioss)

Regards

Rahul R

Altair Forum User · January 2016

Hi Sagar,

Are you using same material for both master and slave?

Based on the contact stiffness formulation the contact stiffness depends on master and slave stiffness.

Altair Forum User · January 2016

hello first of all thank you all replies

i am using SLIDE interface in contact

and yes i have just changed master and slave rest all is one and same????

Rahul Rajan_21763 · January 2016

link for downloading Free Ebook .(Crash analysis with Radioss) Here in Type 7 contact interface we talk about master slave concept.

Regards

Rahul R

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