{"id":389016,"date":"2024-10-10T09:14:22","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/389016\/"},"modified":"2024-10-10T09:18:35","modified_gmt":"2024-10-10T09:18:35","slug":"389016","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/389016\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Simulating Stiffness of a Part Using Remote Displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Hi&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One way is to mesh that missing part (where black line are shown above) with shells and use there a coarse mesh. Finally use contacts to connect the shell to the surrounding 3D solid bodies shown in the image.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;One can perhaps also use submodelling to study the part shown above in detail (perhaps directly or after the first step is done when the shell part can be removed).&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=LEU6LlGUPAI&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;All the best&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Erik&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-389016","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/389016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/389016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389019,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/389016\/revisions\/389019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}