Hypercrash Connections

Altair Forum User
Altair Forum User
Altair Employee
edited October 2020 in Community Q&A

First of all apologies for posting this in here, there doesn't appear to be a dedicated Hypercrash section. PLease link me to it if there is.

I am doing some simulations on crash structures which involve a section of the chassis, a metal plate and then an impact attenuator made of various materials.

These 3 parts need to be joined together. Joining the chassis to the metal plate is fine, as they are both shell elements so I can just use the weld. However, some of the attenuators are meshed as solids and none of the connectors seem to work for this.

Are there any that work? And if there isn't, is there a way to get round it. The connection needs to be fairly rigid, although it's not being investigated in this current work so the exact details don't matter so much.

Thanks

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  • Altair Forum User
    Altair Forum User
    Altair Employee
    edited February 2012

    Hi James. You can join it with rigid bodies since it is not being investigated or You can create shell faces on the solid element face and give the shell a void material then weld it normally between shell only.

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