Simulate contacts when one of the bodies is flexible

Marcos Salgado

Hello everyone,

I need to simulate a contact between two bodies (as shown in the attached picture). In my case, the blue body is flexible, so I can´t define the contact as a '3D Rigid to Rigid Contact'. I´ve tried different things to solve this problem, but I couldn´t get an appropriate solution.

How can I simulate this kind of contacts?

Thank you in advance.

Kind regards.

Praful

Hello Marcos - Since version 2022.1, MotionSolve supports contact between rigid-flex and flex-flex bodies.

Please refer to https://help.altair.com/hwdesktop/mv/topics/motionview/flex_contact_r.htm for more details on how to use this feature.

Also see this blog on the Motion 2022.1 release

Regards

Praful

Nicolas_20776

Praful Prabhu_20784 said:

Hello Marcos - Since version 2022.1, MotionSolve supports contact between rigid-flex and flex-flex bodies.

Please refer to https://help.altair.com/hwdesktop/mv/topics/motionview/flex_contact_r.htm for more details on how to use this feature.

Also see this blog on the Motion 2022.1 release

Regards

Praful

... the link "https://help.altair.com/hwdesktop/mv/topics/motionview/flex_contact_r.htm" is not available... where to find information to model contact between rigid and flex bodies?

 

GTT Adam

Nicolas_20776 said:

... the link "https://help.altair.com/hwdesktop/mv/topics/motionview/flex_contact_r.htm" is not available... where to find information to model contact between rigid and flex bodies?

 

Hi Nicolas,

Give this link a try:

https://help.altair.com/hwdesktop/hwx/topics/motionview/flex_contact_r.htm?zoom_highlight=flex+contact

 

Hope this helps!

Adam Reid