Dear Emad,
What is the analysis code that you will use to calculate this soil-structure
case?
How are 'contact elements' for this code?
e.g.
a) some solvers requiere to define a master and a slave surface mesh, but
the elements of both surfaces are not 'one-to-one' related
b) other programs require a one-to-one relationship between the nodes of the
master and slave parts, and a link between them to know how are related.
If your program is of type a) the usual way is to define in the problemtype
a GiD condition to handle this information, and mark parts as master and
slave, and the simulation data (like shear parameters)
If your program is of type b) you need to force this special one-to-one
mesh, then you can use the 'special pseudo-geometric entity: contact' (menu:
Geomtry-Create-Contact)
(contact volume for 3D cases). Two master-slave 'equal surfaces' must be
selected, and a kind of semi-structured mesh will be created, having
one-to-one nodes.
The shear parameters could be assigned to this 'special contact volume' with
an additional condition aplied over these volumes.
Enrique Escolano
----- Original Message -----
From: "Emad JAHANGIR"
emad.jahangir at ensg.inpl-nancy.fr
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Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 10:23 AM
Subject: [GiDlist] contact element
Hello everybody,
I use GID 10 to simulate soil-structure interaction for pile foundations.
I would like to know if is possible to add a contact element in order to
consider the soil-pile interface behavior (e.x with shear parameters).
Thank you
Emad
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