ADINA
has been used successfully for the analysis of many problems which
involve contact conditions. These problems may be encountered in the following areas
of applications:
- Metal forming processes, deep drawing.
- Soil-structure systems.
- Rubber springs, seals, tires.
- Forming of polymeric components.
- Crush analyses.
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- Impact of structures, crash dynamics.
- Construction joints.
- Medical devices.
- Fracture.
- Switches.
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Due to its generality, ADINA can be used in a wide range of contact problems,
including situations such as:
- Multiple bodies coming into contact.
- Flexible bodies (2-D or 3-D solids, beam or shell structures) or rigid bodies.
- Areas of contact are unknown in advance.
- Bodies may undergo small or large strains and material nonlinearities may be present.
- Contact is frictionless or with Coulomb friction.
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- Offsets can be specified for contact surfaces.
- Motion can be slow (static conditions) or fast (dynamic, impact conditions).
- Double-sided contact with no restriction on orientation of surfaces.
- Interior body contact used for simulating cutting processes.
- Birth and death of contact surfaces.
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Some Examples
 Analysis of a rubber seal.
 Deep drawing of a square cup.
 Analysis of a stick shift rubber boot.
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ADINA
