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.