Hi, is there the possibility besides measurement of total force and torque acting on a geometry, to display the force vector? kind regards
Joshua
Hi,
If its total force vector then it's not possible with EDEM currently. We can display the contact forces, this will give you a vector for each particle contact on the geometry but not the resultant force.
It is likely something you could use Python for, but ultimately you'd have to visualise this in the Python environment
Regards
Stephen
Hi Stephen, thanks for your answer. What about mapping forces from EDEM to hypermesh? Should I use contact, pressure or forces on elements to map most accurately into hypermesh? kind regards Joshua
Hi Joshua,
I'm not sure what would be the most accurate option. EDEM calculates contact forces so it gives the force as a contact point. So it's often best to use the particle-geometry contact forces as the basis for passing to Hypermesh.
if you passed forces or pressures on the geometry what would be happening is EDEM would translate the contact forces to the EDEM geometry mesh, and then that would be passed to HM. So it's essentially translating the forces 3 times rather than 2. That said we do have a tutorial outlining export to hypermesh and we use the force/pressure option - https://community.sw.siemens.com/s/article/39728-edem-hypermesh-tutorial-export-edem-data-for-fea-analysis-of-dump-truck
