How to connect bodies in truss problem

- March 2, 2019 at 11:58 am
  
  Ommm
  Subscriber
  
  I have a basic tower which I intend to modify in later stages.
  
  Right now I am not able to connect the surface body and the line bodies (provided with "L" cross-section) supporting them from beneath.
  
  Deformations are scaled in the image
  
  Can anyone help me out here?
  
  Thanks!
  
  Om
- March 2, 2019 at 5:59 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  Are you working in Mechanical Workbench or APDL?
  
  If you are working in Workbench, in Mechanical, you can add a Bonded or Frictional Contact between the beam and the surface.
  
  In the Geometry editor, you might be able to use Shared Topology to have the surface imprinted with the beam and the nodes shared.
- March 2, 2019 at 6:31 pm
  
  Ommm
  Subscriber
  
  Thanks, Peter!
  
  Appreciate your help. Yeah, I am working in mechanical. I was earlier trying to implement Bonded contact, but it was showing error in the assignment of bodies.
  
  Eventually, I exchanged the bodies in contact and target option. Getting better results now
  
  I tried to read about target and contact option but it was not clear totally! Which type of bodies should be assigned in the target/contact option.
  
  Regards
  
  OM