Engineering Transactions, 66, 3, pp. 281–299, 2018
10.24423/EngTrans.903.20180928

Contact Between 3D Beams with Deformable Circular Cross-Sections – Numerical Verification

Olga KAWA
http://www.zmb.put.poznan.pl/
Poznan University of Technology
Poland

Przemyslaw LITEWKA
http://www.zmb.put.poznan.pl/
Poznan University of Technology
Poland

Robert STUDZIŃSKI
Poznan University of Technology
Poland

In this paper a numerical analysis of contact between three-dimensional elastic beams with deformations at the contact zone is carried out. The authors propose a new model of beam-to-beam contact which is the continuation of ideas presented in [6, 7, 10]. The results of beam-to-beam contact analysis are compared with the ones for full 3D problem solved in the abaqus/enviroment. The aim of the conducted numerical simulations was to select the most appropriate 3D model and to use it as a reference to verify the accuracy of the proposed beam-to-beam contact definition. The verifications were carried out for contact between beams with circular cross-sections. The obtained contact forces and the displacements of beams tips for different beams arrangements and boundary conditions showed a satisfactory correlation.
Keywords: contact; beams; finite element method; linearization; deformed cross-section; numerical analysis
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DOI: 10.24423/EngTrans.903.20180928