Hydrostatic Pressure

Good afternoon All,

I need a quick help regarding the correct setup of the hydrostatic pressure load.

I need to apply the load on both of this two surfaces:

The purpose is to bend this sheet metal plate.

I have selected the single surface and applied the load as explained on the manual:

Before that I created a node set (of 792 node for each surface) of the single surfaces.

What I’m not sure is if I have to divide the Magnitude for the total node on the face (in this case 5.97 MPa / 792 node or if I have to leave the calculated value (5.97 MPa).

If I try to use the 5.97MPa the result is not realistic.

Squadretta_sp_5mm.pmx (3.3 MB)

I need to understand if I’m wrong or not

WBR

Marco F.

You have to divide the total load by the number of nodes only for the concentrated force loading: Don't apply concentrated force load to surfaces - #6 by supreeth

But you also have rigid body constraint on that face (I can’t check the file now) ?

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I checked it now. You have a hydrostatic pressure and a rigid body constraint (with a point spring at its reference node) applied to the same faces.

From Abaqus documentation:

A rigid body is a collection of nodes, elements, or surfaces whose motion is governed by the motion of a single node, called the rigid body reference node. The relative positions of the nodes and elements that are part of the rigid body remain constant throughout a simulation. Therefore, the constituent elements do not deform but can undergo large rigid body motions.

So it doesn’t make sense to apply loads directly to the surface with a rigid body constraint (you could just prescribe a force or moment to the reference node so that it’s transferred to the model via the selected face, which is made rigid in the process).

If you really need some springs (usually soft) on that face, you can use the Surface spring constraint instead.

Rigid body constraints or BCs applied to edges of solid models are risky too - you will get large stress concentrations.

Squadretta_sp_5mm_mod.pmx (3.3 MB)

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Thank you very much for your explanation :grinning_face:

Now it’s clear the proper use of hydrostatic pressure load (and where I was making the mistakes).

WBR

Marco

It’s an strange problem . Hydrostatic pressure load ?¿?. 5.97MPa on top and 7.62MPa at the bottom of a aprox 100mm lenght piece.?

Is that correct? Do you have hydrostatic pressure or pressure done by an hydraulic press.?