Issue with Mat Law 42
Hi,
I'm using Mat LAW 42 for the spinal disc in my simulations. It's important that I can use this material, since I'm using material properties from literature. So I don't want to use another material such as a foam material, ect. My issue is that the type 2 contact is somehow loosing rigidity. Please look at this pictures:
Zero Load:
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2000N Load:
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2000N Load when packing Vertebrea inside a RBody:
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So the last image is how I would like to have it, but without choosing my vertebreas to be rigid.
My contact settings are:
and my Material Properties are:
Thanks for your help. Best
Jonas
Answers
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I assume the LAW42 material is the disc that is colored and Vertebrae is grey. Are there any warning messages in your *0.out file?
Which is part is slave and which part is master?
Is there other TYPE7 contact?
What material is the vertebrae and what element (they look like tetra) but are they 1st or 2nd order?
Thanks,
Andy
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Hi Andy,
Yes, the disc (colored) is LAW42, the element are hexas and I used the following property:
The Vertebrea (grey) it is tetras using Law 2 for the solid part and a law 2 0.5mm thick shell representing the bone shell (cortical bone).
For the contact I used master nodes from the vertebrea and slave nodes from the disc since the vertebral material is much stiffer.
I got the following warnings:
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| ERROR(S) SUMMARY | WARNING(S) SUMMARY |
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| | --- INTERNAL 1 WARNING(S) |
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| | |--- 1 WARNING ID : 762 |
| | | ** WARNING : -nthread COMMAND LINE OPTION USED AN|
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| | --- NODE GROUPS 1 WARNING(S) |
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| | |--- 1 WARNING ID : 690 |
| | | ** WARNING IN NODE GROUP DEFINITION |
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| | --- ELEM/PROP/MAT COMPATIBILITY 2 WARNING(S) |
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| | |--- 2 WARNING ID : 758 |
| | | ** WARNING IN FORMULATION FLAG (SOLID) |
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| | --- INTERFACES 8 WARNING(S) |
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| | |--- 4 WARNING ID : 1079 |
| | | ** WARNING : CHECK TIED INTERFACE |
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| | |--- 4 WARNING ID : 1157 |
| | | ** WARNING : TIED INTERFACE |
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------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------There is no contact 7 at the moment. Later I will add one to the posterior structures.
If you give me a dropbox link I also could provide you with the model.
Thanks for your support. Cheers
Jonas
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Hi Jonas,
For solid parts using LAW42 it is recommended to use Ismtr=10 in /PROP/SOLID. Is is written in the comments in /PROP/SOLID. This probably won't fix the tied contact problem though. The 1157 warning means that there are slave nodes of your tied contact that are not able to be projected to a master surface so they are removed from the tied contact. Please check and see which nodes this happens with to see if these are the nodes that are not being tied correctly.
Thanks,
Andy
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Hi,
The solution is to set Spotflag value to 1: 'Formulation is optimized for spotwelds or rivets'. This solves the issues.
Cheers,
jonas0