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Workshop 4B Contact with Friction

ANSYS Mechanical Structural Nonlinearities

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WS4B-1

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Workshop 4B: Contact with Friction

Goal
Create contact pairs between three parts (piston, cylinder and seal). Run 2 load step analysis to simulate assembly of the three parts together. Post Process force along axis to assembly parts.

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Piston O-ring

Model Description
2D Axisymmetric Piston is constrained from movement. Cylinder is displaced to simulate assembly Materials:
Steel for Piston and Cylinder Elastomer for O O-Ring Ring

Cylinder

1st load reconciles interference between piston and inside diameter of O-ring 2nd load step p slides cylinder y onto p piston-O-ring g subassembly.
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WS4B-2

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Workshop 4B: Contact with Friction

Steps to Follow:
Restore Archive browse for file W4b_oring.wbpz

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Save as
File name: WS4b-oring Save as type: Workbench Project Files (*.wbpj) ( .wbpj)

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WS4B-3

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Workshop 4B: Contact with Friction

Highlight the Engineering Data Cells double click to open and verify the predefined material properties
Verify that the units are in Metric(Tonne Metric(Tonne,mm,) mm ) system. If not, fix this by clicking on Utility Menu>Units>Metric(Tonne, mm,..)

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WS4B-4

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The project Schematic should look like the picture to the right.
Highlight the Engineering Data Cell and open by clicking li ki on the th Right Ri ht Mouse M Button B tt (RMB)=>Edit (RMB) >Edit t to verify the predefined material properties
elastomer and Structural Steel

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Verify that the units are in Metric(Tonne,mm,) system. If not, fix this by clicking on Utility Menu=>Units=>Metric(Tonne, mm,)

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Return to the project schematic page

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Double click (or RMB=>Edit) on the Model Cell to open a Mechanical Session

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WS4B-6

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Unit > Metric (mm,kg,N,s,mV,mA)

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Once inside the Mechanical application, verify the working unit system The piston-cylinder assembly is already set up as a 2D axisymmetric model with the necessary boundary conditions and loads loads. It remains to define the contact pairs between the parts, set up the solution control analysis settings, run the solution and post process the results. p each folder in the project p j tree to become familiar with the model Expand and to confirm material assignments for each part, boundary conditions, loads and Analysis Settings.

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WS4B-7

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Workshop 4B: Contact with Friction

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Note: Auto contact detection did not create adequate contact relationships for this model. There is only one bonded contact pair created by default and it is insufficient for representing the assembly.

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WS4B-8

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Redefine the O-ring To Piston contact region as follows:

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Revise Target definition to include the three surfaces of the O-ring groove as shown. Change g Type y to Frictional
Friction Coefficient = 0.05

Switch behavior to Asymmetric Formulation = Augmented Lagrange Normal Stiffness = 0.1 Updated U d t d stiffness tiff each h iteration Pinball Radius = 2mm

target

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WS4B-9

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Workshop 4B: Contact with Friction

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Insert an additional manual contact region between O-ring and Cylinder wall by highlighting Contact branch and RMB>Insert>Manual Contact. Defined this new region with specifications below. Contact

Target

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WS4B-10

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Confirm the Analysis Settings

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Large deflection is turned On There are two load steps with different Auto Time Stepping specifications

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WS4B-11

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Workshop 4B: Contact with Friction

Confirm the displacement load of 10mm is applied to the cylinder at load step 2.

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WS4B-12

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Execute the solve.
After many iterations and a few bisections, the solution converges.

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WS4B-13

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Review the Total Deformation results.

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Change the contour bar to clarify the deformation of the O-ring geometry Animate the result

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WS4B-14

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Highlight Solution Branch and RMB>Insert>Contact Tool

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Insert and post process contact status, pressure, frictional stress and penetration

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WS4B-15

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