Structural & Thermal

Structural & Thermal

For a helical spring should the whole coiled surface be defined as contact and target?

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      The coiled surface can be modeled as contact and target. But it is better to have the spring sliced – multibody part and then define the self contact/ contact surface at relevant coils. If whole surface is selected then the update of the contact definitions while solving may become complicated.