[GiDlist] structured mesh with contact elements in 3d

[Sebastián Ignacio Callegari Valenzuela]

Hi Gid Team:

I’m using 7.2 trial version for a heat transfer problem in a plastic
molding injection in 3d. I did the model in the same GID, because the
.iges model can’t be meshed with structured elements, the piece is a
kind of ring, which is surrounded by a steel mold.

I want to do a structured mesh with brick elements, but my problem is
when I created contacts volumes between the plastic and the mold,
because when GID do the mesh, this has distortionated elements in the
plastic, all completed outside the model, but in the mold and the
contact’s elements are OK . I tried to do the mesh without the contact
elements and it works ok, the plastic and mold elements are good, the
problem is only when the contact volumes are in the draw.

Regards

Sebastián Callegari V.
Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica
Universidad de Santiago de Chile.



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