NASTRAN Glued Contact

NAS133, Section 5, March 2013
Copyright 2013 MSC.Software Corporation

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SECTION 5
GLUED CONTACT
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SOL 101 and 400 support the general glued contact capability
Simulates a glued joint
Bodies dont have to be initially in contact. They can come in contact during
the analysis and become glued.
After being glued together, bodies can separate again or stay glued based
on user-specified criteria.
Just like touching contact, the general glued contact utilizes the nonlinear
solver which is an incremental and iterative process.
GLUED CONTACT
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Permanent Glued Contact is a special case of glued contact
Designed to help users quickly assemble components with dissimilar
meshes
Available in SOL 101, 103, 105, 107, 108, 109, 110, 111, 112, and 200.
A linear solution. Permanent contact constraint MPC equations are used.
No nonlinear increments or iterations involved.
GLUED CONTACT
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BCTABLE IGLUE parameter
SETTING UP GLUED CONTACT
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BCTABLE IGLUE parameter
0 no gluing
1 - Activates the glue option. In the glue option, all degrees-of- freedom of the contact nodes are
tied in case of deformable-deformable contact once the node comes in contact. The relative
tangential motion of a contact node is zero in case of deformable-rigid contact. This option is
recommended when there is no gap or overlap between contact surfaces or initial stress free
contact is specified.
2 - Activates a special glue option to insure that there is no relative tangential and normal
displacement when a node comes into contact. An existing initial gap or overlap between the
node and the contacted body will not be removed, as the node will not be projected onto the
contacted body. To maintain an initial gap, ERROR should be set to a value slightly larger than
the physical gap.
3 - Insures full moment carrying glue when shells contact. This option is recommended when
there is no gap or overlap between contact surfaces or initial stress free contact is specified.
4 - Insures full moment carrying glue when shells contact. The node will not be projected onto
the contact body and an existing initial gap or overlap between the node and the contacted body
will not be removed, as the node will not be projected onto the contacted body.
In SOLs 101 and 400, if contact is initially not true set NLGLUE on BCPARA to 1
For SOL 400 with a mixture of glued and non-glued bodies, BCPARA,0,NLGLUE,1
must be used
The choice of IGLUE can lead to Grounding problems (discussed later)
SETTING UP GLUED CONTACT - IGLUE
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When glued contact is used MSC Nastran will automatically create a
network of MPCs rigidly connecting the two surface bodies
The quality of this network does depend on the contact search order
A good strategy is to use the Automatic search order when initially
setting up glued contacts, and then double-check the MPCs created
(discussion to follow)
SETTING UP GLUED CONTACT - SEARCH
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CASE STUDY 2
MODAL ANALYSIS WITH GLUED CONTACT
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Analyze the shrouded vanes shown below
This is MD Users Guide Application Example 25
Hub and vanes are meshed with Tet10 elements
Shroud is meshed with Hex8 elements
Glue the two bodies together and compute the first 10 free-free modes
CASE STUDY 2
Hex8 Tet10 double
curved interface
Coarser mesh
Finer mesh
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Import the MSC Nastran input file Vanes_and_Shroud.dat
Create two contact bodies
CASE STUDY 2
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CASE STUDY 2
Set up the contact table
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CASE STUDY 2
Set the cell to G to set IGLUE=1
Turn on Automatic Contact
Detection (ISEARCH = 2).
Turn on Stress-Free Initial Contact
(ICOORD = 1). This specifies
stress-free initial contact which
modifies the coordinates of the
nodes in contact to close gaps and
penetrations between the two
bodies.
This is an important step to
improve clean rigid-body modes
and help the model pass the
grounding check (discussed later).
It also ensures no artificial stresses
are induced.
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CASE STUDY 2
Set up a SOL 103 normal modes analysis and request for the first 10 modes.
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CASE STUDY 2
Review the BCTABLE entry.
Important: BIAS is not specified, which defaults to 0.0 for glued contact. A Patran
entry for BIAS will be ignored for glued contact.
ISEARCH=2 (Automatic)
ICOORD=1
ERROR=default
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CASE STUDY 2
Review normal modes results:
6 clean rigid-body modes
1
st
flexible mode 1,139 Hz
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If there are in-plane gaps between shells, the ERROR parameter
cannot be used to glue them together
ERROR projects nodes towards a patch, which is defined by the shell
element surface. If the node lies in the same plane as the patch , it
cannot detect it.
To deal with in-plane gaps, use tangential error tolerance (ICOORD-2).
The default value will be 20% greater than the default contact tolerance
of the contact body.
This tolerance may be directly set with the SLIDE parameter in the
BCTABLE entry.
SHELL EDGE GLUED CONTACT IN PLANE GAPS
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Turn on tangential error tolerance in the Patran Contact Table with
Delayed Slide Off.
Set this value directly with Slide Off Distance (SLIDE)
SHELL EDGE GLUED CONTACT IN PLANE GAPS
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Determining the glued contact status is important. It is possible to
glue only a few nodes on a large surface. This leads to incorrect
deflections and stresses
Glued contact can be evaluated by examining the deflected shapes
and stresses of the model
The MPCs used to model linear contact can be created during the
analysis in a punch (*.pch) file
These MPCs can then be directly imported into the Patran
database to provide a visual reference to the glued contact
The MPC punch file is created with the following Case Control
Command:
NLOPRM MPCPCH = BEGN
GLUED CONTACT - STATUS
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Confirm network of MPCs connecting contact bodies
Use UNDO to remove MPCs from model, or delete them manually
MPCs may be kept in the model and contact bodies deleted.
GLUED CONTACT MPC DISPLAY
Vane from CASE
STUDY 2
MPCs with Automatic Search MPCs with Default Search
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What is Grounding?
If a MSC Nastran model is properly created, then if it is completely
unconstrained movement at one point of the model should cause the entire
model to move as a rigid body, with no internal forces. If this is not the case
the model has Grounding errors.
Grounding most often occurs with the misuse of CELAS and CBUSH
elements, RBEs, and MPCs
The GROUNDCHECK command can be used in MSC Nastran to help
determine in any such problems exist.
Glued contacts are covered by the GROUNDCHECK N-Set Output.
GLUED CONTACT GROUNDING ISSUES
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While glued contacts may work perfectly in a model, their use can
still cause failures to be flagged via GROUNDCHECK
IGLUE=1 or 3 will cause grounding if:
There are gaps or overlaps between the contact surfaces (they are not
perfectly aligned)
And permanent glued contact is used
And stress-free initial contact (ICOORD-1) is not specified
The above scenario is a common occurrence in real world models
GLUED CONTACT GROUNDING ISSUES
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Glued contact creates a network of MPCs rigidly linking the bodies
together.
IGLUE = 1 will create a network with 3 MPCs per slave node, linking the 3
Translational DOF.
IGLUE = 3 will create a network with 6 MPCs per slave node, linking the 3
Translational and 3 Rotational DOFs.
The MPC coefficients for these options will not take the geometry change
caused by a gap or overlap properly into account, leading to unbalanced
MPCs and a grounding problem.
To prevent this problem either:
Use IGLUE = 2 or IGLUE = 4 (which properly handles the geometry
changes)
Use stress-free initial contact (ICOORD = 1) which moves the grids to
eliminate gaps and overlaps and create ideal geometry.
WHY DOES IGLUE CAUSE GROUNDING?
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Faceted face glued contact
Overlaps exist between the two contacting shell bodies
GROUNDING EXAMPLE 1
GROUNDCHECK results with IGLUE=1
shell thickness
shown
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Faceted edge glued contact
Gaps exist between the two contacting shell bodies
GROUNDING EXAMPLE 2
GROUNDCHECK results with IGLUE=1
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Gaps or overlaps exist between contacting surfaces
MORE GROUNDING EXAMPLES
Solid elements
Shell elements with gaps
Shell elements with overlaps
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GUIDANCE PROVIDED BY THE MSC NASTRAN QRG
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GUIDANCE PROVIDED BY THE MSC NASTRAN QRG
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This model has a gap between the two shell bodies
TEST MODEL IGLUE = 1
Slave fine mesh (0.180 thick)
Master coarse mesh (0.150 thick)
0.165
0.200
0.180/2 + 0.150/2 = 0.165
0.200 0.165 = 0.035
Default contact tolerance is 0.0359
As default tolerance is greater than the gap, all nodes are held and glued
0.035
GAP
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Glued contact MPCs shown in Patran
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The moment arm of the MPC in the region of the gaps does not account for
the 0.035 gap, only the plate thickness
This causes grounding
0.090
0.075
0.035
GAP
RX
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The moment arm of the MPC correctly accounts for the 0.035 gap
0.090 + 0.035 = 0.125
No grounding
0.090
0.075
0.035
GAP
RX
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If stress-free initial contact (ICOORD=1) is used, the user needs to
beware that the model geometry has been changed.
USING STRESS-FREE INITIAL CONTACT
IGLUE=1 or 3
IGLUE=1 or 3 plus
ICOORD=1
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A special case of grounding involves Angle or Tee shear clips,
with or without mouse holes
When the faces of the flanges are glued to the skin beneath,
grounding issues and missing contact detection can occur at the
junction of the clip flange and web
GROUNDING ANGLE AND TEE CLIPS
Angle clip
Tee clip
Problem areas
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Solution is to not include the web in the contact body created.
Only use the flange.
GROUNDING ANGLE AND TEE CLIPS
Contact body includes
entire shear clip
No Can fail GROUNDCHECK Yes Passes GROUNDCHECK
Contact body includes
flange only. Exclude
the web.
Angle
clip
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Learn to perform a Natural frequency (SOL 103) analysis with glued
contact between solids and shells.
Please go to the Seminar Workbook where you will find step-by-step
instructions for this workshop
WORKSHOP 4 NATURAL FREQUENCY ANALYSIS WITH
GLUED CONTACT
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Learn to create a model with face-to-face glued shells and see the
importance of proper contact search order.
Please go to the Seminar Workbook where you will find step-by-step
instructions for this workshop
WORKSHOP 5 SURFACE TO SURFACE CONTACT
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