Rope Design

Altair Forum User

Hello,

 

Can anyone help me in the design of a Rope in Radioss?

Simple Rope needs to be designed with one end fixed and the other end a velocity is given only for 1ms and then later zero? 

I had queries in regards to 

1) How to Design the rope?

2) I applied velocity using 'BC's manager' but how can I define it needs to be stopped after 1 ms?

 

3) Also if a point Mass need to be kept on the node how do we do it ?

 

Thanking you,

 

yours sincerely,

Kartik Kanugo

Altair Forum User

Hi Kartik,

For modelling wire/rope elements you can use beam or spring elements. Try with imposed displacement where user needs to create a function accordingly.

You can apply mass through ADMAS option in 1D panel.

There are several examples and tutorials on  imposed loadings in the Help Menu and I recommend you to go through.