Spring (Contact)

This realization creates N rows of spring (SPRING2N) elements between shells and/or solids, where N is a user defined value.

Spring (contact) is only available in the Radioss solver profile.

The connection between the spring elements and the links is made with a tie contact definition.

Figure 1. Spring (Contact) Realization Example


Realization Details

Width
Specifies the distance between the two outermost rows. This is valid only for realizations with two or more rows.
Rows
Specifies the number of rows of spring elements of the realization.
Must be a positive integer.