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Workshop 3A Contact Stiffness Study

Goal:
Perform a convergence study on contact stiffness

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Workshop 3A: Contact Stiffness Study

Steps to Follow:
Restore Archive browse for file W3a-stiffness.wbpz

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Save as
File name: W3a-stiffness Save as type: Workbench Project Files (*.wbpj) ( .wbpj)

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Workshop 3A Contact Stiffness Study

The project Schematic should look like the picture to the right.
From this Schematic, you can see that E i Engineering i (material) ( t i l) Data D t and d Geometry G t have h already been defined (green check marks). It remains to set up and run the FE model in Mechanical Open the Engineering Data Cell (double click on it OR Right Mouse Button (RMB)=>Edit) to verify the linear material properties. You might have to activate important dialog boxes from Utility Menu > View > Properties Outline Verify that the units are in Metric (Tonne,mm,) system. If not, fix this by clicking on Ut Utility ty Menu e u >Units U ts >Metric(Tonne, et c( o e, mm,) , )

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Workshop 3A Contact Stiffness Study

Return to Project Schematic
Utility Menu > Return to Project

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Double click on the Model Cell C to open the FE Model ( (Mechanical S Session) ) (or RMB=>Edit)

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Workshop 3A Contact Stiffness Study

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Geometry is 2D Axisymmetric. Lower plate is rigidly constrained. Upper plate is a flexible body with a crowned contour along bottom face. The upper plate is under a 5MPa pressure load acting downward. Material: Both plates are default linear elastic structural steel steel.

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Workshop 3A Contact Stiffness Study

A single contact pair has already been set up with the following specifications:

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This workshop will focus on a study of the contact stiffness and its influence on results (surface pressure and penetration).
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Workshop 3A Contact Stiffness Study

Verify f the working unit system
Unit > Metric (mm,kg,N,s,mV,mA)

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Open the folders beneath the model branch to become familiar with the model set-up. set up

Highlight Geometry and refer to the details window to verify that this is a 2D axisymmetric model. Inspect the predefined asymmetric frictionless contact region between the two plates. Inspect the Analysis Settings. Autotime stepping = ON Initial substeps = 10 Max substeps = 100 Large deflection = ON
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Workshop 3A Contact Stiffness Study

Highlight the contact region and set Normal Stiffness to Manual and define the Normal Stiffness Factor to 1e-002.

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Execute the Solve

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Workshop 3A Contact Stiffness Study

Post process the Total Deformation:

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Workshop 3A Contact Stiffness Study

Post process the contact results:
Contact Pressure Contact Penetration

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Workshop 3A Contact Stiffness Study

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Record the results in Table below. Repeat analysis with Normal Stiffness factors 0.10, 1.0, and 10.0. For further comparison, change the contact formulation to Normal Lagrange.
Contact Formulation
Aug Lagrange Aug Lagrange Aug Lagrange Aug Lagrange Norm Lagrange g g

Normal Stiffness F t Factor

0.01 0.10 1.0 10.0 N/A

Total Deform

Contact Pressure

Penetration

# of iterations

Experiment also with Update Stiffness between iterations and substeps for comparison. Whi h combination Which bi ti offers ff the th best b t results lt (in (i terms t of f accuracy and d # of f iterations)?
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Conclusions

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Notice that as stiffness increases, contact penetration decreases while maximum pressure increases. Notice also the general trend toward more iterations it ti and d longer l run times. ti It is i also l worth th noting ti the th benefit b fit of using the automatic stiffness updating tool. It is also worth noting that regardless of which stiffness value is used, used the overall total displacement of the assembly changes very little. This underscores the need to know your engineering objectives. Specifying the right contact stiffness is highly problem dependent and is always a balance between quality of results (accuracy) and cost (run time). Based on this study, a normal stiffness factor of 1.0 would be satisfactory.

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WS3A-13

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