Hello,
I'm trying to run a simulation for deforming a curved beam via forces on pins attached to either end. This image shows the assembly.
The forces on the pins are acting to bring the two pins closer together. I need there to be no friction between each pin and the beam, so that there will be force, but not torque transferred across the contacts. I have tried setting up this simulation as a static 2D plane-stress simulation, but am having trouble creating the contacts and other interactions.
Could someone please help me with this? I have attached the parts as both .sldprt (2017) and .step files.
The pins aren't physically needed, unless you care about behavior around the joint in detail.
Here I used the "fixed hinge" restraint at both end holes. This fixture allows only free rotation.
If you really need to see what happens at the pins, they can be included in the model and the part put in high-accuracy no-penetration contact with the pins, with a reasonably fine mesh at the joint. By default there is no friction. Here I added a symmetry cut. If the loading violates symmetry, some other constraint (could be at a single vertex) should be added to keep the part from translating axially.