{"id":358136,"date":"2024-03-20T13:30:38","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T13:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/need-sliding-distance-in-x-y-and-z-directions\/"},"modified":"2024-06-05T12:05:34","modified_gmt":"2024-06-05T12:05:34","slug":"need-sliding-distance-in-x-y-and-z-directions","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/need-sliding-distance-in-x-y-and-z-directions\/","title":{"rendered":"Need micromovement in X, Y and Z directions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Hello Sir,<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\"><strong>I need to find three dimensional micromovements<\/strong><\/span> of a hip stem with respect to bone. Ansys provides in-built option (SLID COMMAND) for evaluating sliding distance. But the software treats it as a scalar quantity, and <strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">I need all the X, Y, Z micromovement values.<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\"><em>What I have done so far&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">I have identified the target node IDs that are matched with the contact node IDs by using a custom-written python script. Now, I subtracted the target directional deformation from contact directional deformation <strong>per each matched node<\/strong> and got deltaX, deltaY, deltaZ values. I thought this would give the three-dimensional micromovement values per each node. But, when I took resultant (sqrt(deltaX^2 + deltaY^2 + deltaZ^2)) of these directional deformation values, it did not match with the sliding distances readily available as an in-built option. I have also combined sliding distance and gap in various ways, but none of them worked.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Please let me know where I am going wrong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Any suggestions regarding any methods are truly helpful. Thanks in advance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-358136","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-ansys-mechanical-apdl","topic-tag-ansysworkbench-ansys-staticstructural-1","topic-tag-contact","topic-tag-frictional-sliding","topic-tag-gap","topic-tag-interface-treatment-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["75962","81","170445"],"_bbp_author_ip":["23.206.193.154"]," _bbp_last_reply_id":["0"]," _bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["875"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_lock":["1717589146:292712"],"_bbp_topic_id":["358136"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["81","75962","170445"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["5"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["358593"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["358593"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-03-23 02:16:26"]},"test":"tirtharajrnd-iitg-ac-in"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/358136","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":2,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/358136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":369909,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/358136\/revisions\/369909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}