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This example shows two cantilever beams in contact. The beams were modeled using four-node quadrilateral elements and the end of top beam was subjected to a linearly increasing displacement.  
This example shows two cantilever beams in contact. The beams were modeled using four-node quadrilateral elements and the end of top beam was subjected to a linearly increasing displacement.  
The Tcl scripts for this example can be found [[Example3.1.tcl|here]].  
The Tcl scripts for this example can be found [[ZeroLengthContactNTS2D_Example2|here]].  


[[File:zeroLengthContactNTS2D _fig3.jpg]]  
[[File:zeroLengthContactNTS2D _fig3.jpg]]  

Revision as of 00:22, 22 January 2010

This command is used to construct a zeroLengthContactNTS2D element object. This is a Node-To-Segment (NTS) frictional contact element used in two dimensional analysis for contact between elements with 2 DOF nodes.

element zeroLengtContactNTS2Dh $eleTag -sNdNum $sNdNum -mNdNum $mNdNum -Nodes $Nodes $Kn $kt $phi




$eleTag unique element object tag
$sNdNum Number of Slave Nodes
$mNdNum Number of Master nodes
$Nodes ... Slave and master node tags respectively
$Kn Penalty in normal direction
$Kt Penalty in tangential direction
$phi Friction angle in degrees

NOTES:

  1. The contact element is node-to-segment (NTS) contact. The relation follows Mohr-Coulomb frictional law: <math>T = N \times tan(\phi)</math>, where <math>T</math> is the tangential force, <math>N</math> is normal force across the interface and <math>\phi\,\!</math> is friction angle.
  2. For 2D contact, slave nodes and master nodes must be 2 DOF and notice that the slave and master nodes must be entered in counterclockwise order.
  3. The resulting tangent from the contact element is non-symmetric. Switch to the non-symmetric matrix solver if convergence problem is experienced.
  4. As opposed to node-to-node contact, predefined normal vector for node-to-segment (NTS) element is not required because contact normal will be calculated automatically at each step.
  5. contact element is implemented to handle large deformations.

EXAMPLE:

element zeroLengthContactNTS2D 1 -sNdNum 6 -mNdNum 6 - Nodes 5 10 12 3 9 11 1 4 2 8 7 1e8 1e8 16

Example 1:

This example simply shows the two quadrilateral elements in normal contact. The top element is in normal downward uniform force. The Tcl script of this example can be found here.

Example 2:

This example shows two cantilever beams in contact. The beams were modeled using four-node quadrilateral elements and the end of top beam was subjected to a linearly increasing displacement. The Tcl scripts for this example can be found here.

The following Figure shows the deflections of the two beams.

REFERENCES:

  1. P. Wriggers, V.T. Vu and E. Stein, Finite-element formulation of large deformation impact–contact problems with friction, Comput. Struct. 37 (1990), pp. 319–331.
  2. Peter Wriggers. Computational Contact Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons Ltd. Chichester, 2002.

Code Developed by: Roozbeh G. Mikola, UC Berkeley and N. Sitar, UC Berkeley