Cards to obtain Reaction forces

Ram Dhiwakar Seetharaman_21015

I would like to get the reaction force in a drop or crash test, similar to the examples below. What are the cards that I should include and what is the procedure to define it on the part that I am interested in ?

Thanks in advance.

PaulAltair

Reaction forces are available for Rigid walls and interfaces

In the starter, you can create a /TH/RWALL

Select the Rwalls that you want output for and set output variable to 'DEF'

The output frequency is controlled by TFILE in engine, typically you would set it 10-100 times higher frequency than your animation files.

If you have a meshed ground plane and contact, you would create a /TH/INTER for that contact instead of the /TH/RWALL

PaulAltair

Reaction forces are available for Rigid walls and interfaces

In the starter, you can create a /TH/RWALL

Select the Rwalls that you want output for and set output variable to 'DEF'

The output frequency is controlled by TFILE in engine, typically you would set it 10-100 times higher frequency than your animation files.

If you have a meshed ground plane and contact, you would create a /TH/INTER for that contact instead of the /TH/RWALL

Ram Dhiwakar Seetharaman_21015

Paul Sharp_21301 said:

Reaction forces are available for Rigid walls and interfaces

In the starter, you can create a /TH/RWALL

Select the Rwalls that you want output for and set output variable to 'DEF'

The output frequency is controlled by TFILE in engine, typically you would set it 10-100 times higher frequency than your animation files.

If you have a meshed ground plane and contact, you would create a /TH/INTER for that contact instead of the /TH/RWALL

Thank you very much, Paul.