How to connect two volumes with dissimilar meshes for a large deflection analysis (in APDL)?

- March 1, 2021 at 7:35 pm
  
  Kim
  Subscriber
  
  The volumes are like two cubes (with different materials and element types) that have one coincident area. n
- March 3, 2021 at 2:10 am
  
  mrife
  Ansys Employee
  
  There are several ways to do this. One would be to define a bonded contact between the two cubes - at the surfaces where they meet. Another would be to Boolean Glue the volumes together; set some mesh size controls; then mesh to get a conformal mesh (the two cubes are connected by sharing nodes). nMiken