Reply To: Contact between line and solid body

[peteroznewman]

ANSYS staff are not permitted to open attachments. I have used Insert Image to put one of them below. Please do the same in future posts.

One way to connect rebar line bodies to solid bodies is to have the nodes along the line body shared with nodes on the solid.

To do that, delete the holes in the solid body. Create two planes through each line body, use those three planes to slice (DesignModeler) or split (SpaceClaim) the solid. Place the pieces of the solid body into a new part (DesignModeler) or use the Share button (SpaceClaim) to share topology.

Now you will have a mesh that has shared nodes between the rebar and the solid and no need to use Contact.