Contact Spotweld
This is a model for welding. To model the welding, one beam element with special *MAT_SPOTWELD material is used. Download is available in the download section of this document.
Keywords
Keywords
This example has been taken from the introductory class of Prof. Dr. Ala Tabiei. Example name: spotweld.k
The used Keywords in alphabetical order.
*BOUNDARY_PRESCRIBED_MOTION_SET *BOUNDARY_SPC_NODE *CONTACT_AUTOMATIC_SINGLE_SURFACE *CONTACT_SPOTWELD *CONTACT_TIED_SHELL_EDGE_TO_SURFACE *CONTACT_TIED_SHELL_EDGE_TO_SURFACE_BEAM_OFFSET *CONTACT_TIED_SHELL_EDGE_TO_SURFACE_CONSTRAINED_OFFSET *CONTACT_TIED_SHELL_EDGE_TO_SURFACE_OFFSET *CONTROL_CONTACT *CONTROL_HOURGLASS *CONTROL_TERMINATION *DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT *DATABASE_BINARY_D3THDT *DATABASE_CROSS_SECTION_SET *DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY *DATABASE_GLSTAT *DATABASE_HISTORY_NODE *DATABASE_MATSUM *DATABASE_NODOUT *DATABASE_SECFORC *DATABASE_SWFORC *DEFINE_CURVE *ELEMENT_BEAM *ELEMENT_SHELL *END *KEYWORD *MAT_ELASTIC *MAT_SPOTWELD *NODE *PART *SECTION_BEAM *SECTION_SHELL *SET_NODE_LIST *SET_PART *SET_SHELL_LIST *TITLE
Reduced Input
Reduced Input
This example has been taken from the introductory class of Prof. Dr. Ala Tabiei. Example name: spotweld.k
*Node and *Element Cards are removed.
*KEYWORD
*TITLE
SPOTWELD MATERIAL
$
*CONTROL_TERMINATION
$ .100E-01 0 .000 .000 .000
.0012
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*MAT_SPOTWELD
$ 100 1.00e-7 1.00e+08 0.300 1.00e+3 1.00e+6 1.00e-4
100 1.00e-6 1.00e+07 0.300 1.00e+3 1.e5 1.e-6
$ .05 0.00E+0
.3
$*CONTACT_spotweld
*CONTACT_tied_shell_edge_to_surface
$*CONTACT_tied_shell_edge_to_surface_offset
$*CONTACT_tied_shell_edge_to_surface_constrained_offset
$*CONTACT_tied_shell_edge_to_surface_beam_offset
100 200 3 2
*set_part
200
1,2
*ELEMENT_BEAM
$ 1 100 213 123
1 100 1213
$1,2
*SECTION_BEAM
100 9 1
2,2
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*CONTROL_HOURGLASS
8
*CONTROL_CONTACT
.100 1 1 1
0 0 10 0
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*DATABASE_HISTORY_NODE
123 304
*DATABASE_CROSS_SECTION_SET
2 11
*DATABASE_CROSS_SECTION_SET
4 12
$
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*database_glstat
1.e-9
*database_matsum
1.e-9
*database_swforc
.2e-4
*DATABASE_SECFORC
.200E-04
*DATABASE_NODOUT
.200E-04
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3PLOT
.200E-04
*DATABASE_BINARY_D3THDT
.500E-03
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*DATABASE_EXTENT_BINARY
1
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*PART
PART PID = 100 PART NAME :P0000001
100 100 100
*PART
PART PID = 1 PART NAME :P0000002
1 1 1
*PART
PART PID = 2 PART NAME :P0000003
2 1 1
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*MAT_ELASTIC
1 1.00e-8 100000.0 0.300
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*SECTION_SHELL
1 16 0.83333 2.0 3.0
2.0 2.0 2.0 2.0
$.2,.2,.2,.2
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*SET_NODE_LIST
1
326 327 328 329 330 331
*SET_NODE_LIST
2
242 243 244 245 246 247
*SET_NODE_LIST
4
332 333 334 335 336 337
*SET_SHELL_LIST
11 5
101 102 103 104 105
*SET_SHELL_LIST
12 5
226 227 228 229 230
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*BOUNDARY_SPC_NODE
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*DEFINE_CURVE
1
0.0000 0.0
0.0200 40.0
*BOUNDARY_PRESCRIBED_MOTION_SET
1 1 2 1 1.0 0
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*CONTACT_AUTOMATIC_SINGLE_SURFACE
$ i i i i i i i i
$ ssid msid sstyp mstyp sboxid mboxid spr mpr
$ f f f f f i f f
$ fs fd dc vc vdc penchk bt dt
$ f f f f f f f f
$ sfs sfm sst mst sfst sfmt fsf vsf
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*NODE
$ NODE X Y Z TC RC
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
$ (11) SHELL ELEMENT CARDS
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*ELEMENT_SHELL
$ EID PID N1 N2 N3 N4
$---+----1----+----2----+----3----+----4----+----5----+----6----+----7----+----8
*END
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This example has been taken from the introductory class of Prof. Dr. Ala Tabiei. Example name: spotweld.k
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This example has been taken from the introductory class of Prof. Dr. Ala Tabiei. Example name: spotweld.k
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