Reply To: Expansion joint to Spring

[Ashish Khemka]

Hi,

How much time are these bodies increasing? Are you modeling them as solid bodies? What if you use shell elements to represent these bodies? Using shell elements seems a good approach.

If you want a replacement then bushing joints can be a choice but again you will need to find the stiffness in each direction for translation and rotation.

Regards,

Ashish Khemka