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A Shell Elements drop and rebounds from a elastic plate. Plate measure 40*40*1 mm3 (16 elements) Dropped shell has 10mm side length and 2 mm thickness. Drop height is 10mm Element formulation is Belutschko-Tsay Define a surface to surface contact with 2 way detection. Define the elastic plate as Master and impacting shell as slave. Initial Velocity is 100,000 mm/sec vertically End Time is 0.0002 sec.
Set-Up
For model setup we use various option in the preprocessor tab. Create 2 areas with required dimension as shown below (PreprocessorModeling-create-). Transform drop shell to required drop height.
Meshing
Define Element Type 163 (Preprocessor-Element type-add/edit/delete-) Part should be defined using right combination of material , real
contact , element type. Before meshing this has set and can be confirmed at status bar.
Material 1 1
Element Type 1 1
Real constant 1 2
Meshing cont
Define Real Constant to assign section properties
or thicknesses. For each thickness there should be one real constant. (Preprocessor-Real Constants)
Creating Parts
Assign the correct material, section properties and element type
to create parts. For LS-Dyna to recognize a part, its should be a group of elements that have the same combination of element type, real constant set, and material reference numbers Repeat this to all area/components (Preprocessor-Meshing Mesh Attributes)
Revisiting Meshing
Set line seeding or element size. (Preprocessor-Meshing-
Mesh tool-Set) Mesh Volume ,Areas and lines to generate solid, shell or beam elements. Refer images below to access the meshing tool.
Creating Components
We need to create node and elements components for
Adding Constrains to a group of nodes Defining Velocity to a part (part nodes need to be grouped) Defining a master surface and node surface (associated
nodes of surface need to be grouped) To request output for required parts/region of interest. In this model create node and element component for both the areas you could name them for example as plate_e and plate_n for element and node components. Refer images below to access the menu options.
Constraints-On Nodes) Create a node component or select the desired nodes to apply the constrains. Refer images below to access the menu options to add constrain.
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Defining contacts
In this model we will create a Automatic Surface to Surface
Contact. Choose the moving plate as contact surface and fixed plate as target surface. (Preprocessor-LS-DYNAContact-DefineContact)
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Initial Velocity
The moving plate has initial velocity of 100,000 mm/s in vertical
direction. Initial velocity can be applied using option under LS-Dyna Option tab as show below. (Preprocessor-LS-DYNA-Initial Velocityw/Nodal Rotate)
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Solution Setting
As per problem definition end time is 0.0002 sec,
remember that most of impact problem occur over a time of ms. We now use option in the solution tab (Solution Time Controls Solution Time)
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Output Controls
In output controls we
Request for both Ansys and LS-Dyna Result formats Set the frequency at which result files are written Request for Special Ascii files which has information on system energies, Nodal and Elemental results. Select the components for which Time-History results has to be written.
You could request for 10 Ascii files at a time the most frequent used are Global statistics data Boundary condition forces and energy Material energies summary Geometry contact entities Node data
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(Solution Solve)
As Discussed before this example Post processing option are General Post Proc Time History Post Pro Attached is the animation of the solved problem. Utility Menu > PlotCtrls > Animate > Over Results
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