April 18, 2024 at 4:34 pm
Ushnish Basu
Ansys Employee

Few different options to try out:

  1. Try CONTACT_TIED_SHELL_EDGE_TO_SURFACE_BEAM_OFFSET, with the beam node on the tracked (SURFA) side, and the solid on the reference (SURFB) side.
  2. Extend the beam 1 or 2 elements into the solid either with shared nodes, or constrained using CONSTRAINED_BEAM_IN_SOLID
  3. Use a CONSTRAINED_NODAL_RIGID_BODY over solid faces adjacent to the shared node. This will make a small portion of the solid surface rigid