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    This document describes a simulation that models a pile of logs under gravity to demonstrate the effect of friction. The simulation is first run with frictionless contact between the logs, causing them to collapse once constraints are removed. It is then run with frictional contact assigned and a coefficient of friction of 0.7, allowing the pile to hold itself together due to friction. The simulation uses explicit dynamics analysis to model the logs as rigid bodies interacting under gravity loading.

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    This document describes a simulation that models a pile of logs under gravity to demonstrate the effect of friction. The simulation is first run with frictionless contact between the logs, causing them to collapse once constraints are removed. It is then run with frictional contact assigned and a coefficient of friction of 0.7, allowing the pile to hold itself together due to friction. The simulation uses explicit dynamics analysis to model the logs as rigid bodies interacting under gravity loading.

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    This document describes a simulation that models a pile of logs under gravity to demonstrate the effect of friction. The simulation is first run with frictionless contact between the logs, causing them to collapse once constraints are removed. It is then run with frictional contact assigned and a coefficient of friction of 0.7, allowing the pile to hold itself together due to friction. The simulation uses explicit dynamics analysis to model the logs as rigid bodies interacting under gravity loading.

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    This document describes a simulation that models a pile of logs under gravity to demonstrate the effect of friction. The simulation is first run with frictionless contact between the logs, causing them to collapse once constraints are removed. It is then run with frictional contact assigned and a coefficient of friction of 0.7, allowing the pile to hold itself together due to friction. The simulation uses explicit dynamics analysis to model the logs as rigid bodies interacting under gravity loading.

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    EFFECT OF FRICTION --- SIMULATION OF A LOG


    PILE
    Overview
    This document aims at demonstrating the effect of friction. The movement of a wood
    log pile under gravity load is modeled. A simulation with frictionless contact between
    logs is conducted, then repeated by changing the contact to frictional. Adding
    friction high enough help the pile hold itself together. The simulations use explicit
    dynamics analysis and assume the logs as rigid bodies because their strains are not
    the interest of this simulation.

    Goals
    • To understand the effect of friction

    Steps
    Modeling a wood log pile without friction
    1. Open Ansys workbench, create an "Explicit Dynamics" analysis. Check the
    units.
    2. Add wood material. There is a sample wood material available in Ansys
    engineering data.
    3. Import the geometry (Figure 1).

    Figure 1. The geometry of the bolt thread model

    4. Mesh the model and define contact. Before meshing the model, change the
    stiffness behavior of all the parts to rigid. Use Multi-zone mesh method to the
    logs. Assign a face mesh sizing of 200mm to the lateral faces, and 80mm to
    the end faces. One may need to turn the mesh sizing behavior to “hard” to force
    the mesh to confirm the sizing. Delete all the contacts and use body
    interaction in explicit dynamics. Set the interaction type as “frictionless” for all
    the parts.
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    5. Define analysis setting and assign boundary conditions. Define two steps. A
    gravity force is applied to all the parts and is active in both steps. In the first
    step, the two outmost logs at the bottom layer are fixed using remote
    displacements (Figure 2). The purpose of the first step is to allow the logs to
    adjust their initial position and fully contact each other. In the second step,
    these constraints are released to allow the logs to move freely. Each step has
    1s of simulation time, and the maximum time step is set as 1e-4s.

    Figure 2. An illustration of the boundary conditions

    6. Run the simulation and review the results. Request a deformation output. As
    expected, without friction, these logs collapse soon after the constraint is
    released.

    Figure 3. A contour plot of the log pile without friction

    Modeling a wood log pile with friction


    7. Run an analysis with friction. Duplicate the analysis system in Workbench.
    Rename it as "Explicit dynamics with friction". Edit the model in Mechanical.
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    Change the body interaction type to “frictional” and assign a coefficient of


    friction of 0.7. The maximum energy error may need to be turned off (changed
    to 0) in the analysis setting. Rerun the simulation. The deformation contour
    plot at 2s is shown in Figure 4. From the deformation history plot in Figure 5,
    one can also see that the maximum deformation stays the same after the
    constraint is released, which means the pile can hold itself together by friction.

    Figure 4. A contour plot of the log pile with friction

    Figure 5. Maximum deformation vs. time

    Summary
    The document demonstrates the effect of friction by simulating a common scenario
    in daily life. Explicit dynamics analysis can capture complex interaction between
    objectives and the fast movement of objects and is thus suitable for this type of
    simulation. This simulation also emphasizes the importance of choosing a reasonable
    contact behavior and coefficient of friction in a simulation.

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