How to retrive contact force between geometry and particles in MBD?

Raheem Sterling_22160
Raheem Sterling_22160 Altair Community Member
edited December 2022 in Community Q&A

Hi, 

I want to applied a certain pressure on the bulk consist of particleA through a geometry in z direction, however, the geometry was also constrained with particleB in x and y direction, if I want to control the pressure on the bulk like PID, I need to retrive the contact force between particleA and geometry in the code, I have looked through the IEDEMcoupling and cannot find which method is useful for this case.  Or I need to include custom properties from else?

Reagrds!

Raheem

Tagged:

Answers

  • RWood
    RWood
    Altair Employee
    edited December 2022

    Hi,

    There's nothing that leaps out to me from the coupling interface so I think you're best either creating a simulation custom property (so you only have 1 value) and only adding to it for your particleA-geometry contacts, or doing something similar in EDEMpy.

    Richard

Categories