{"id":247271,"date":"2023-01-23T15:12:52","date_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:12:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/modelling-a-press-fit-in-ansys-discovery\/"},"modified":"2023-01-23T15:12:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-23T15:12:52","slug":"modelling-a-press-fit-in-ansys-discovery","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/modelling-a-press-fit-in-ansys-discovery\/","title":{"rendered":"Modelling a Press Fit in Ansys Discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am currently exploring Discovery to understand its capabilities and where it might fit in my team&#8217;s workflow. A common simulation we do is a press fit, where a cylindrical plug is fit in an originally narrower clinydrical bore. Pre-Assembly dimensions:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Pre-Assembly Dimensions\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/23-01-2023-1674484966-Screenshot 2023-01-23 154146.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p>In Mechanical, it is possible to assemble the two components with a slight overlap, which gets automatically resolved by deforming the sleeve until the needle OD and sleeve ID are touching (no loads, defined only by a fixed support on top of the sleeve and a frictional contact between the sleeve ID and needle OD).<\/p>\n<p>In Discovery the overlapping geometry does not get resolved in the same way. I tried increasing the detection radius factor in the contact setting (1, 10, 50, 100), in case Discovery did not register the ID and OD as a contact pair, but the overlap remained. Is there a different way to simulate a press fit with a sleeve narrower than its plug in Discovery?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Overlapped geometry\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/23-01-2023-1674485913-InkedOverlapped geometry_LI.jpg\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"detection radius factor\" src=\"\/forum\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/23-01-2023-1674486110-Annotation 2023-01-23 151426.png\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-247271","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-boundry-condition","topic-tag-discovery"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["273121","13632"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.220.96.181"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["1900"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["247271"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["13632","273121"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["1"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["247274"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["247274"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2023-01-23 15:40:02"]},"test":"uc245cummins-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/247271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/247271\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}