Assessing Contact Results

You view von Mises stresses on the real deformed shape to assess the contact results.

  1. In the Simulation study tree, open the Results folder.
  2. Double-click Stress1 (-vonMises-) to display the plot.
    If the plot does not exist, create this plot.
  3. In the PropertyManager under Display, set Units to psi.
  4. Under Deformed shape, select User defined and type 1 for Scale Factor .
  5. Under Property, select Associate plot with name view orientation and select *Front in the menu.
  6. Click .
    The von Mises stress plot is displayed on the real deformed shape.

    The contacting faces of the slider and the locker separate. Due to the large displacement and the big change in curvature between the initial and final positions, this solution has obviously converged to a wrong result.