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I am working on Self piercing riveted joints and trying to simulate using Lsdyna,iam using piecewise linear plastic material model. The rivet is not able to pierce into the sheets, insted it is compressing the elements and elongating them. 4-noded shell elements where used. i want to know how will the elements get broken up or removed from the path of the rivet, I have used one way erode contact card but it was of no use. If any one can suggest  me how the approch should be i would be a great help.

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A question for those interested in the history of mechanics. We have Hooke's law for 2D stress-strain and a generalised Hooke's law for 3D stress states. Maybe I have missed something in my reading of history, but since it appears that it was Thomas Young and not Hooke who related stress and strain (Hooke looked only at force - displacement), why don't we use Young's law or a generalised Young's law?

Hi everyone,

I am quite new in ANSYS Classic and now I had to realize a serious problem. After building a steel frame from beam4 elements I tried to define pressure on beams.

I can not find the direction of the pressure. It could work in or perpendicular to the plane of the frame (for example).

Could anybody help me, how to define the direction?

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Can any body tell me hw to solve inverse dynamics problems in adams???