Farouk Maaboudallah 10 Report post Posted August 14, 2019 Hi everybody Is there anyone here who has tried to model and run contact simulation using rough surface (see the picture ) ?? Cheers, Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Q.Nguyen-Dai 300 Report post Posted August 16, 2019 What's your goal? Why you need this simulation? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Farouk Maaboudallah 10 Report post Posted August 16, 2019 I need it to perform simulation with the real contact surface and use the "real" contact stiffness for my application. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Q.Nguyen-Dai 300 Report post Posted August 17, 2019 I'm not sure Optistruct (and another FEA softs like Ansys, Abaqus,...) can do contact analyse at microscopic level. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Farouk Maaboudallah 10 Report post Posted August 17, 2019 Ansys do this type of analysis. Abaqus as well ... For Ansys, please see the following paper : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/237566348_Methods_for_Generating_Rough_Surfaces_in_ANSYS Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Farouk Maaboudallah 10 Report post Posted September 10, 2019 On 8/17/2019 at 2:07 AM, Q.Nguyen-Dai said: I'm not sure Optistruct (and another FEA softs like Ansys, Abaqus,...) can do contact analyse at microscopic level. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
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