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Mechanical Contact Modeling News in COMSOL Multiphysics®

Duration: 57:55
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Get an introduction to the updates for mechanical contact modeling in the Structural Mechanics Module as of COMSOL Multiphysics® version 5.5 from Tobias Gasch, product developer at COMSOL. Follow along as Tobias takes you through the specialized features and functionality for setting up and analyzing mechanical contact problems, including:

  • The Solid Mechanics, Multibody Dynamics, Shell, Membrane, and Layered Shell interfaces
  • Contact across interfaces and toward any meshed boundary
  • The penalty method
  • Friction forces in local tangent directions
  • Adhesion and decohesion
  • And more

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Introduction (0:00) Agenda (0:13) New is COMSOL 5.5 (1:04) Setting up Contact, Solid Mechanics (2:56) Setting up Contact, Shell and Membrane (5:43) Contact Outside the Physics Interface (12:00) Demo (17:42) The Contact Pair Node (19:51) Meshing (23:45) Contact Methods (26:01) Selecting the Penalty Factor (28:43) Friction (31:03) Solver Suggestions (35:01) Postprocessing (39:31) Adhesion (41:44) Decohesion (44:58) Demo II (49:29) New and Updated Models (54:59) Q&A (55:19)