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Calculate circumference of a deformed structure

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In short, I want to calculate the circumference of a deformed structure (i.e., static deformation in solid mechanics). I have found a post in the forum (https://cn.comsol.com/forum/thread/14096/measuring-circumference-of-deformed-ring).

However, I calculate circumference using nonlocal couplings - integration with material frame, and I got a value which is apparently the undeformed circumference. I also evaluate the material coordinates (X, Y, Z) and the spatial coordinates (x, y, z), and found they have the same value.

I also tried the exact file in the above mentioned post (Block_test.mph). But I got the same value no matter using material frame or spatial frame.

Any suggestion about this?

Thanks

Ryan


4 Replies Last Post 24.02.2022, 05:17 GMT-5

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Posted: 3 years ago 22.02.2022, 22:01 GMT-5

Okay. I guess I just needs to enable geometric nonlinearity.

Okay. I guess I just needs to enable geometric nonlinearity.

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Posted: 3 years ago 23.02.2022, 02:34 GMT-5

Also look at https://doc.comsol.com/5.5/doc/com.comsol.help.comsol/comsol_ref_deformedmeshes.25.05.html

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Also look at https://doc.comsol.com/5.5/doc/com.comsol.help.comsol/comsol_ref_deformedmeshes.25.05.html

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Posted: 3 years ago 23.02.2022, 04:53 GMT-5

Wait... the nonlocal couplings doesn't work with frequency domain analysis! Any suggestion?

Wait... the nonlocal couplings doesn't work with frequency domain analysis! Any suggestion?

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Posted: 3 years ago 24.02.2022, 05:17 GMT-5

I think you need to state your problem better. Are you doing static or frequency domain analysis? You can have non-linear geometry in the former. It is not that non-local couplings don't work in the frequency domain, it is your use of them, as I see it.

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René Christensen, PhD
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I think you need to state your problem better. Are you doing static or frequency domain analysis? You can have non-linear geometry in the former. It is not that non-local couplings don't work in the frequency domain, it is your use of them, as I see it.

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