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Abaqus - modelling adhesive joint
Dear all,
I want to model two composite plates who are connected with an adhesive joint:
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4629007/2012-02-09_145405.png
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4629007/2012-02-09_145458.png
the upper and lower plate are modelled as composite plates while the vertical part on the right should represent the adhesive joint between them.
http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4629007/2012-02-09_145441.png
As you can see in the above picture, I moddeled all of them with shell elements. Now I 'm having some difficulties:
1.As you can see there is an overlap betweem them, I 'm afraid that this will cause a local increase in stifness, is this correct? What could be a possible solution to overcome this problem?
2. Is it correct to model the adhesive with shell elements? In literature I found that normally this is done with solids but since this is a very big model (50m long, rotorblade of windturbine) I would like to know whether this is possible without solids to minimize calculation time and pre-processing time.
Kind regards
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