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This forum’s been very helpful to me in the past but I am (sort of) stuck on an issue that I haven’t directly found an answer for yet. Suppose I have the following structure of a blue\/green exterior tub that has a red panel that goes across the tub’s width as shown below:<\/p>\n
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Currently the model is all solids but since all the objects are composite laminates, I will be using ACP and thus have the following shell\/surface geometry to port into ANSYS Workbench from my CAD package:<\/p>\n
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You’ll notice that in the pictures above and below, modeled as all surfaces\/shells, the red panel is not in contact with blue\/green tub anymore like it had been when everything was a solid with thickness.This is because the tub shell model has been taken from the tub’s external<\/strong> geometry because, for all intents and purposes, I can’t model the tub from its internal geometry.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n The above image is a cross section view normal to the panel showing the gap between the panel and the sides and bottom of the tub.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n My first question is after building the model in ACP such that the gap between the tub and the panels is 0 (or close to it) by defining laminates to be the exact width of the gap, how can I set up the model (in Static Structural for example) so that the panel is bonded to tub? I’m making the assumption that the panel and tub are very rigidly bonded.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n What I have tried:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n Again the assumption I’d like to model is that the gap is a joint that is very rigid as in reality, a strong epoxy will be filling the very small gap between the panel and the tub.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Any help would be greatly appreciated.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Thanks,<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Rafael<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-38457","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["10635"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["564"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["38457"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","157162"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["96766"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["96766"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-10-23 01:03:09"]},"test":"jridao2"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/38457","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\/38457\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/d0848157-c51e-4b2d-9808-a8ef0151c686\/73d76c5c-d55b-439d-b82d-aaed0154dc9c_panel-normal.jpg?width=690&upscale=false\")
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