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Re: 'Pin in Slot' type fixture for a simplified 2D analysis
Bill McEachern Nov 26, 2018 11:17 AM (in response to Andrew Fodchuk)if it were me i would skip all the contacts and use a remote load rigid restraint to get a sliding restraint at the translating end. I would just use a force for the bottom.
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Re: 'Pin in Slot' type fixture for a simplified 2D analysis
James Riddell Nov 26, 2018 10:06 AM (in response to Bill McEachern)Bill McEachern wrote:
if it were me i would skip all the contacts and use a remote load rigid restraint to get a sliding restraint ant the translating end. I would just use a force for the bottom.
Bill McEachern has a really good idea here. Anything else will get complicated very quickly and SWX doesn't really like that.
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Re: 'Pin in Slot' type fixture for a simplified 2D analysis
Bill McEachern Nov 26, 2018 11:21 AM (in response to Andrew Fodchuk)and one more thing, given the displacements of the spring you would likely need to do a NL analysis as the deflections are large relative to the thickness of the leaf spring elements (components). Further, be advised that some times the remote load function can produce non convergence in the fist step - supposed to have been fixed but it seems to break frequently.
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Re: 'Pin in Slot' type fixture for a simplified 2D analysis
Andrew Fodchuk Nov 26, 2018 10:47 PM (in response to Bill McEachern)Thank you so much for the advice, I knew there was a better way of handling this!
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