hello, I have reproduced example 2 from this paper (https://www.researchgate.net/publication/226613820_BEM_and_FEM_analysis_of_Signorini_contact_problems_with_friction) and had to significantly change the recommended value for friction stick slope, by default CCX would have calculated K=130,000*50/100 = 650,000 but in order to get similar results to the paperI had to increase it to 6,500,000 (see graph displaying Ux vs x = D1 vs length, equivalent to Fig. 14 in the paper). Any thoughts? There have to be some better guidance regarding to what K, and lambda to choose, CCX default values look like a not very good option for most cases…
You never ask so I assume this is going to be tough.
Some time ago I was doing contact slip testing and also found some discrepancy (much smaller). At the time I associated it to the deformation of the two surfaces in contact. The contact pressure between the two was modified and even some springs disconnected varying the expected value. Perhaps it is time to clarify this point in more detail.
Well, it’s an open question. I have relied too much in the past to bottled algorithms in commercial software and now I find I don’t have solid criteria to select critical inputs.
I have set up the model from scratch using first my contacts standard criteria which a later explain.
The contact parameters have end up being mostly the same as in the paper.
I don’t have nonlinear plain strain in MECWAY so I have assumed a tiny thickness (0.0001 mm).
The agreement is excellent.
The sticky value suggested by ccx works well for me as initial value (Kn/100). From my point of view the key problem is the normal Stiffness. (Kn unknown a priori)
I normally start with E in [MPa] * Normal Pressure [MPa]
E= 130.000 MPa
NP=50 MPa
Note Kn has force/volume units or Kn [MPa/mm] = [GPa/m]
If Normal Pressure (NP) is difficult to pre-estimate, I simply use Kn=E [MPa] / mm .
HINT: Use contact clearance as in a convergence study. My reference value is how much penetration do I allow which I normally expect to be:
1E-5 mm - 1E-7 mm if the contact is the area of interest. (Interference fit or contact study like this one)
1E-3 mm - 1E-5 mm if I’m just looking for only compression support. Relaxing Kn (Clearance) speed up the convergence.
Comparing to the Paper.
Kn = 10^5 daN/mm2/mm = 1.000.000 [Mpa/mm] = 1.000.000 [Gpa/m] (Nice)
Kn= 10^6 daN/mm2/mm = 10.000.000 [MPa/mm]= 10.000.000 [GPa/m] (Results are said to be better. I would had use 6.500.000 [GPa/m] which is in between)
Looks good but I had to change the lambda because of the Ux (D1) value as mentioned, since that value show where you have stick o slip. Check that variable, please, to see if also agrees.
This are the values for the Contact “CDIS”.
Slightly different.
It capture the separation of the two extreme nodes . As they do not belong anymore to the contact node set , ccx doesn’t provide CDIS for them.
It’s kind of strange that the paper include them. I think the base scale is wrong. Ccx aproach is more correct removing them.
Not sure what you mean, they’re plotting the D1 component of the nodes to check if there is slip, just comparing to the original position as the foundation is immovable. In my previous post you see where this displacement is zero, which is not the case in your plots. I had to increase lambda to fit this behaviour:
Notice the paper results with the authors analysis compared to Ansys:
Yes, I’d like to know how to select the right K and lambda for ccx so I searched for analytical references, tests and other methods like BEM to compare.
Can’t warranty 100% but Boundary method looks like a Heaviside function for the sticky slope. 0 tangential displacement up to the point where the shear stress exceeds the friction force. Then , detached, and free to slide. Would be like infinite tangential stiffness up to a certain shear. ¿Isn’t it?
That would make sense with the fact that increasing lambda you get a sharpy snap?
¿Wouldn’t that be like a brittle connection?. It doesn’t seem necessarily better than the ccx actual approach.
I’m purely talking in terms of the physical response of such desired contact.
Just for your reference, attached the link to the file I was talking about at the beginning. My goal was to understand and be able to set up a friction brake which I could release when required. At that time, I was not concerned about some slip.
File is at the bottom of the post.
As far as I understand the FEM and BEM methods proposed in the paper are supposed to give the most accurate solution to the problem at hand without the need of choosing the appropriate penalty factors as it is the case with ansys and ccx. So the results in the paper can be used otherwise to understand how good penalty parameters should be chosen, for example in the way suggested by Victor.
I checked your model and it is intended to show when Coulomb friction isn’t enough to hold the applied loads, Am I right? but my point is more related to this article:Frictional behavior
A finite value of the sticking stiffness may reflect a user-specified physical behavior or may be characteristic of the constraint enforcement method.
So it seems to me that there is more knowledge to be put in the selection of lambda than the ccx manual reflects. Looks like the suggested value only has the purpose of ensure convergence in the solution and not provided a guide to a particular behaviour of the model, which is left to the analyst.
So my suggestion would be that unless you have a specific understanding of the friction model, pure Coulomb needs a very steep slope but keeping in mind that may lead to convergence issues in some problems. Beware of pre-set values!!!
