PRIMER 22.1

Contouring Panel Gaps for Sliding Contact

Contouring Panel Gaps for Sliding Contact

Penetration check module is now capable of contouring gaps in a user defined range between panels. Three modes are available. In gap thickness mode the FIX function becomes a MOVE function which removes gaps.

gap thickness - will contour the gap between SURFA (tracked) side nodes and SURFB (reference) side shells for surface-surface contact. In single surface contact every node is treated as a tracked node.
edge gap thickness - as above but will only consider tracked nodes on shells on a free edge
node distance - measures the distance of each tracked node to mid-plane of its reference segment and reports cases where the distance is less than the user specified value. This test is independent of contact thickness