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[kkyt2002]

Hello everyone.

 

Does anyone know how to slice a body only partially?

So I could have a contact region within one body.

[peteroznewman]

You can make a sketch, such as the circle, then Extrude slice material as shown below.

Then you should select the two bodies and Form New Part so Shared Topology will connect a mesh across the two bodies that will become one part.

[kkyt2002]

Thank you for your comment!

I think my question was not clear enough.

 

I would like to make a delamination inside a body.

The delamination itself is not a body. it is a specific condition of a partial surface where meshes facing each other across the delamination surface are detached from each other.

To make such a detached surface, I tried to use 'Slice'. However, The function 'Slice' couldn't be used to slice a partial face of a body. It always slices the whole body, and makes it into two different bodies.

 

So my question is:

Is there a way to define a surface area within 'One body', where meshes across the surface are detached from each other, but still have contact?

 

 

 

 

[peteroznewman]

There are many videos on Fracture mechanics and a Pre-meshed crack is what you want to search on. Here is one video.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIeg4Yj-pEs

 

If you want an elliptical crack shape, ANSYS has automated the creation of that crack in the mesh using the Fracture tool. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu3T09y8NVk