ABAQUS Volume II: I–Z - Manual (Page 425)

*SHELL TO SOLID COUPLING
18.16 *SHELL TO SOLID COUPLING: Define a surface-based coupling between a shell
edge and a solid face.
This surface-based option allows for a transition from shell element modeling to solid element modeling in a
three-dimensional analysis.
Products: ABAQUS/Standard ABAQUS/Explicit
Type: Model data
Level: Part, Part instance, Assembly
References:
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“Defining element-based surfaces,” Section 2.3.2 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
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“Defining node-based surfaces,” Section 2.3.3 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
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“Shell-to-solid coupling,” Section 28.3.3 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
Required parameter:
CONSTRAINT NAME
Set this parameter equal to a label that will be used to refer to this constraint.
Optional parameters:
INFLUENCE DISTANCE
Set this parameter equal to the perpendicular distance from the edge-based surface within which all
nodes or element facets on the solid surface (depending on the solid surface type) must lie to be
included in the coupling constraint. The default value is half the thickness of the shell that was used
to define the edge-based surface.
POSITION TOLERANCE
Set this parameter equal to the distance within which nodes on the edge-based surface must lie from
the solid surface to be included in the coupling definition. The default tolerance is 5% of the length
of a typical facet on the shell edge.
Data lines to define the surfaces forming the coupling definitions:
First line:
1. The edge-based surface name.
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