Week 5 Sphere pressing on a plate

OBJECTIVE:

To perform the analysis of sphere pressing on the plate and capture the plastic deformation of the plate.

METHODOLOGY:

• First in engineering data add the strctUural steel non linear from the library.
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• Import the geometry and check for the symmetry .If the geometry is symmetric about any two axes a quarter portion is taken out for the analysis since the computational time decreases.
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• Add the suitable materials for the plate and the sphere and define frictional contact between them.
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• Apply the mesh and boundary conditions.
• Add the displacement load to the sphere of 4mm in required no of steps in tabular data so that it penetrates in to the plate and make sure that the sphere retracts back to its original position.
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• Solve the analysis and check for the plastic deformation.

Total deformation: