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Oasys LS-DYNA Environment 8.1 VOLUME 3 ... - Oasys Software

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<strong>Oasys</strong> <strong>LS</strong>-<strong>DYNA</strong> <strong>Environment</strong>: User Guide (Version <strong>8.1</strong>)<br />

<strong>LS</strong>-<strong>DYNA</strong> Manual Section: *CONSTRAINED_LINEAR<br />

Example of: Linearly Constrained Plate<br />

Example Filename: plates_constrained.key<br />

Description:<br />

The center node of a plate moves in the direction normal to the plate. Two other nodes that are<br />

neighbors to the center node are constrained such that their displacement in the normal direction is<br />

identical.<br />

Model:<br />

The plate is made of an elastic material measuring 40 × 40 × 2 mm 3 and contains 64 Hughes-Liu<br />

shell elements. The center node displacement increases linearly. At the termination time, 0.0005<br />

seconds, the displacement is 15 mm.<br />

The degree of freedom in the z-direction for the two constrained nodes is identical.<br />

Input:<br />

A load curve defines the magnitude of the prescribed displacement of the center node, 41<br />

(*BOUNDARY_PRESCRIBED_MOTION_NODE, *DEFINE_CURVE).<br />

A linear constraint card defines the coupling of the displacement in the z-direction between the two<br />

constrained nodes, 40 & 42, (*CONSTRAINED_LINEAR). Two equal coefficients with opposite<br />

signs control the displacement.<br />

Results:<br />

The plots simply show that the two constrained nodes displace the same amount.<br />

Reference:<br />

Schweizerhof, K. and Weimer, K.<br />

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