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[hajar.rhylane]

Dear ANSYS community, i need your support please about my simulation.

I am trying to run a transient structural analysis to simulate the rolling contact between a wheel and a rail. However, as it is shown in the figure bellow that, in the rolling step, the wheel just keeps going through the rail body. 

I checked the contact satus for the contact pairs and i found that the contact is initially open. Please how can i solve this problem?

Thank you so much in advance,

Best regards

[Erik Kostson]

Hi

I would suggest to do this in Workbench Mechanical - you can then take the solver input file.dat generated by Mechanical, and import it into ansys apdl shoud you want that .

below are some tutorial (more can be found if you search)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5YkBzuhK4I

All the best

Erik