Reply To: Soil container modeling – Mohr Coulomb (Material)

[peteroznewman]

Greetings Maria Fernanda,

What version of ANSYS are you working with?  Please state the year and the R number. Is it the free Student license with limited nodes and elements or is it an unlimited license?

I reread the original post and may have misunderstood the model on first reading. The soil is inside the container.  I see there are aluminum tubes around the sides, and the steel plate is at the bottom. Are the interleaved rubbers the same size as the aluminum tubes?  Are the aluminum tube geometry solid bodies with a wall thickness or are they sheet bodies with a thickness property entered in Mechanical?

Bonded contact of the sides of the container to the soil might not be the best way to model the interaction of the soil to the container. Frictional contact might work better.

Regards,

Peter