{"id":301878,"date":"2023-08-17T10:18:45","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T10:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/beam-to-solid-frictional-contact-problem\/"},"modified":"2023-08-17T10:18:45","modified_gmt":"2023-08-17T10:18:45","slug":"beam-to-solid-frictional-contact-problem","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/beam-to-solid-frictional-contact-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"Beam to solid frictional contact problem"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have an FE model with an axle with dia 20 mm inserted in three slots. The outer slots are fixed and the mid slot is pulled down 0.1 mm. Between the axle and slots I have defined a frictional contact with frictional coefficient 0.2. The simulation works well when the axle and slots are meshed with solid elements, but when I mesh the axle with beam elements and the slots with solid elements the contact doesn’t work.<\/p>\n

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I set the pinball radius and offset (for contact detection) equal to the radius of the axle (10 mm) as seen below:<\/p>\n

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The contact tool shows these results:<\/p>\n

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But when I try to solve the model it won’t converge and it seems that the contact is not detected properly.
Workbench archive is attached.<\/a>
Any ideas on how to fix the problem?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-301878","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t