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Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical I want to rotate the FSW tool, but It works strange. Reply To: I want to rotate the FSW tool, but It works strange.

dlooman
Ansys Employee

It's probably not possible to model the tool digging into the plates with an implicit solver.  If that's required considered using an explicit code like LS-DYNA.