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• Hi Disla, The example I show above does not require any particular load or displacement; it is just an example that shows many situations one encounters when designing products with materials that can deform significantly under load (e.g., polymers…

  in Is there a function to represent a flat surface pushed against the mesh to be analyzed? Comment by gscheffer September 23
• Hi Victor, Thank you for your feedback. I did some research on the gap element you mentioned (I don't know if MecWay has something like Nastran's gap elements), and then I search for the same on MecWay manual, and found that using non-linear Stat…

  in Is there a function to represent a flat surface pushed against the mesh to be analyzed? Comment by gscheffer September 23
• Same problem with additional circle displacement (.150" downward)... This problem takes 5 iterations, and yet it is a trial-and-error since there is no easy way to establish any correlation between the overall circle downward displacement and the e…

  in Is there a function to represent a flat surface pushed against the mesh to be analyzed? Comment by gscheffer September 22
• Even a simple user function that would apply to nodes, where one could specify that if such node displacement in x, y, or z reaches certain value, the node displacement would then remain constant at that displacement (whatever that value is). It wo…

  in Is there a function to represent a flat surface pushed against the mesh to be analyzed? Comment by gscheffer September 22
• I do not think linking a node to a surface would work, because that would deform a component differently from what it would be expected. Also, one would have to know what nodes are to be deformed ahead of time. I can try to simulate the problem wi…

  in Is there a function to represent a flat surface pushed against the mesh to be analyzed? Comment by gscheffer September 22