TIE Contact on perpendicular 2D Meshes

Turbokraken

Hello Everyone,

 

I hope everyone is doing well.

 

I have come yet again with another quick question: I need to transfer loads between two geometries, which are meshed with shell elements and are perpendicular to one another. It looks like this:

 

 

They also have different element sizes and the line geometry of the left one cannot be properly projected onto the right one. Also, there is a gap of 10mm between them.

 

I decided to go for a TIE contact with contact surfaces, but somehow this configuration does not transfer loads at all or tie my parts together. I suspect it is because the contact surfaces are perpendicular? I have tried setting the search distance of the TIE much higher than the gap length, yet to no avail.

Seam Connector is also not working for me, I just cannot get them to be realized.

 

- Can I somehow improve the modelling so that I may use contact surfaces for TIEing my parts?

- How would you try to connect these parts given the circumstances?

 

Any help would be fantastic! Thanks in Advance and best Regards,

Lennart

 

PrasannaK

Hi Lennart,

 

TIE contact with node to surface can be used in this case. You can have :

Slaves- front row of nodes of blue component

Master- Elements of purple component

 

And the gap between the components should be used as search distance.

 

Thank You

Turbokraken

Dear PrasannaK,

 

Thanks a lot for that, it worked!
I have created a contactsurf with the 3D solids and then 'free edges' option and connected that to the surface of the other component with the appropriate search distance.

Thank you!