Trying to do a ring stiffened pressure vessel with shell solver. The rings and shell appear to not be connected in Elmer, but in Salome there are no coincident nodes found. Any ideas?
Shell Solver Ring Stiffened Pressure Vessel
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Re: Shell Solver Ring Stiffened Pressure Vessel
Hi,
I don't quite understand what your problem is.
If you want two bodies connected, the nodes on the interface have to be the same for both bodies. Is that the case?
Matthias
I don't quite understand what your problem is.
If you want two bodies connected, the nodes on the interface have to be the same for both bodies. Is that the case?
Matthias
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Re: Shell Solver Ring Stiffened Pressure Vessel
Yes that is the case, at least when I go into salome and merge coincident nodes salome says there are none.
Re: Shell Solver Ring Stiffened Pressure Vessel
Hmmm...
If you inspect the interface more closely, do you see that the meshes for both adjacent bodies share nodes?
If you inspect the interface more closely, do you see that the meshes for both adjacent bodies share nodes?
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Re: Shell Solver Ring Stiffened Pressure Vessel
I see my problem now. The rings fall on the center of shell elements, hence no coincident nodes are found, but it is not a shared boundary. Displaying it in hidden line makes it look like there is an element edge there.
Kevin
Kevin
Re: Shell Solver Ring Stiffened Pressure Vessel
Did you make a partition in Salomé before meshing (see also http://www.elmerfem.org/elmerwiki/index ... e_to_Elmer)? This normally helps to prevent that kind of problem.
HTH,
Matthias
HTH,
Matthias
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Re: Shell Solver Ring Stiffened Pressure Vessel
I sort of did the opposite, I built it in sections, but then i fused the shell section together to make on shell body. Fusing took the partitions out. I just left it in sections, meshed each one and did a compound mesh. Worked out.
Re: Shell Solver Ring Stiffened Pressure Vessel
OK, yet another approach...
The essential is that your problem seems to be solved.
Matthias
The essential is that your problem seems to be solved.
Matthias