{"id":166509,"date":"2022-02-17T17:21:37","date_gmt":"2022-02-17T17:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-can-i-mesh-couple-edge-of-a-shell-element-to-a-beam-element-surface\/"},"modified":"2022-02-20T20:43:30","modified_gmt":"2022-02-20T20:43:30","slug":"how-can-i-mesh-couple-edge-of-a-shell-element-to-a-beam-element-surface","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-can-i-mesh-couple-edge-of-a-shell-element-to-a-beam-element-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"How can I mesh\/couple edge of a shell element to a beam element surface?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I have a geometry of thin beams and plates connected along the plate edges. My goal is to use shell (shell281) and beam (beam189) elements to model the geometry. However, the overlap of the beams and shells without any regard for the diameter of the beam leads to erroneous results. A simplified base example is shown below where the beam is exaggerated for clarity. The beam is too thin to reasonably mesh it as a solid. Therefore, I wanted to know if there were a way to couple the edge of a shell element to the surface of a beam element. Is this possible with some sort of bonded contact? My intended geometry is more complicated than below so ideally I'd like to avoid manually coupling nodes myself since the beam orientations is complex. <\/p>\n

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