{"id":397263,"date":"2024-12-12T13:30:24","date_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/397263\/"},"modified":"2024-12-12T13:30:24","modified_gmt":"2024-12-12T13:30:24","slug":"397263","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/397263\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: To shell or not to shell, that is the question."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hello Kaushal,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Ok, so it&acute;s just that I can&acute;t check stresses inside the elements. Got it. But just to be clear, the use of midsurface is valid? Like I&acute;m not considerly over simplying the model and hence getting lower stress\/strain results?&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#8221;<em>I am assuming you have selected the solid body as contact and shell body as target<\/em>&#8221; Actually no, ANSYS would not let me do it this way, it says the contact is FAR OPEN no matter what pinball radius I assign. I&acute;m gonna take a look at the Symmetric option for the contacts to see if I get results.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2024\/12\/12-12-2024-1734010196-mceclip0.png\" width=\"813\" height=\"281\" \/>&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#8221;<em>Also, I believe you have scoped multiple contacting pairs in single contact object, this is not recommended<\/em>&#8221; I do have some like 2 contacts geometries to 1 target geometry, but like the 95% of the contacts are 1 to 1.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&#8221;<em>make sure that you have set Shell Thickness Effect to Yes<\/em>&#8221; I started with this ON, but got problematic contacts not being detected in modal analysis and after I took off the thickness effect it worked fine. And yes, I selected the orientation TOP\/BOTTOM accordingly.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thanks.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-397263","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/397263","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":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/397263\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397263"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}