{"id":440043,"date":"2025-08-25T07:36:44","date_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/thin-layer-of-solid-element-penetration-problem\/"},"modified":"2025-08-25T07:39:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-25T07:39:11","slug":"thin-layer-of-solid-element-penetration-problem","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/thin-layer-of-solid-element-penetration-problem\/","title":{"rendered":"thin layer of solid element penetration problem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I have created a very thin layer of coating over the machine tool using element generation of solid face offset with several elements acrosss thickness, which gave only pentahedron element. i have established contact between coating layer and the workpiece. also i used constraint rigid bodies to make sure tool and coat travels together.&lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;but the metal cutting is not happeneing (like contact between uncoated tool and workpiece in past). the coating layer just penetrates even though i established contact. i dont know what to change in my contact card to make such thin micrometer layer visible for contact detection. &lt;br&gt;&lt;br&gt;the goal would be updating the geometry using wear analysis. kindly anyone suggest me a way to solve this problem,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-440043","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-penetration","topic-tag-thin-surface","topic-tag-wear-1"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27814"],"_bbp_topic_id":["440043"],"_bbp_subscription":["553586","480261"],"_bbp_author_ip":["163.116.178.133"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["440093"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["440093"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-08-26 06:25:26"],"_bbp_reply_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["553586","480261"],"_btv_view_count":["241"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_edit_last":["553586"],"_bbp_revision_log":["a:1:{i:440044;a:2:{s:6:\"author\";i:553586;s:6:\"reason\";s:0:\"\";}}"]},"test":"hariramkumar-vennilavan-thenmozhifau-de"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/440043","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/440043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440044,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/440043\/revisions\/440044"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=440043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}