Who is the course for

This course is designed for people who wish to fully understand and analyse the contact non-linear phenomena in the ANSYS environment. Attendees should be familiar with iterative solution techniques in ANSYS and have performed simple contact analyses as encountered in the Basic Structural Non-linearities course.

Duration

2 days

Course Aims

• Take full advantage of all the capabilities of the ANSYS contact elements.
• Select the appropriate contact element, element options and characteristics for an efficient solution.
• Diagnose and correct convergence problems.
• Use contact elements in multiphysics applications.
• Validate the results from a contract analysis.

Topics Covered

• ANSYS contact element overview
• Evaluating contact stiffness and its effect on the solution convergence
• Surface behaviours
• Contact definition
• Friction
• Advanced rigid targets (covering all the KEYOPT and REAL constant settings for these elements)
• Creating contact elements without the Contact Wizard
• Initial Interference
• Dealing with rigid body motion
• Asymmetric versus Symmetric
• Miscellaneous Adjustments
• Troubleshooting contact problems
• Multipoint Constraint (MPC)
• Node-to-node contact elements
• Contact in Multiphysics simulations - structural, thermal, electric conduction and electrostatic
• Bolt pretensioning
• Spot Welds
• Gasket Material
• Cohesive Zone Modeling