Advanced Contact & Fasteners
Training Course

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 day

Course Aims:

To be able to:

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