Rigid Surface to represent contact components

Casper Kruger
Casper Kruger Altair Community Member
edited October 2021 in Community Q&A

Hi, 

I am trying to model a bearing and is only interested in the outer casing. Is it possible to model the cylinder components (in yellow) as rigid 2D shell elements with no material assigned only rigid shell so reduce the computational effort of the solver? I have done this in other solvers, but not sure how to do this in optistruct. 

Thank you,

 

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Answers

  • Rogerio Nakano_21179
    Rogerio Nakano_21179 New Altair Community Member
    edited October 2021

    Hi

     

    Please refer to RBODY in the OptiStruct documentation 

     

    I hope this is helpful

    Regards