uniaxial Compession of a deformable material

Submitted by mkoester on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 11:24

Hi everybody,

I'm running a simulation for the compressing a soft material between a static wall and a moving-mesh-wall. The wall is moving with a constant speed.

Is there a quick way to get the overall force with which the mass ist pushing against the wall?

regards,
Martin

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ckloss | Mon, 08/16/2010 - 13:50

Hi Martin,

you mean the force that the particles exert on the wall?
Yes, this is possible if the wall is of type mesh/gran/stressanalysis. You can dump the stress on the wall to VTK - see doc for fix mesh/gran/stressanalysis and dump (substyle dump/mesh/gran/VTK) for details.

Best,
Christoph