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[Ash Curran]

Hi all,

I would appreciate some guidance. I am using ANSYS LS-DYNA through workbench 2023 R1 and am trying to set up a bird strike simulation for a laminated aircraft window. In doing so i believe i need to specify the body interactions between the plies of the window as 'bonded'. When i do so, the following error comes up:

Can anybody point out where i am going wrong and how to move forward please?

Ash 

[Armin Abedini]

Hi Ash,

Try defining contact pairs instead of body interactions: Right click on Contacts --> Insert --> Manual Contact Region
You can then select the target and contact surfaces and set contact type to Bonded. 

[Ash Curran]

Thankyou! I seem to have sussed this out now.