I am trying to model a displacement beam-column deflection under self weight and a beam contact condition. I am using 2D lines for the beam with a custom fiber section using Steel01. The beam is horizontal with the ends fixed in x and y (y is taken as the vertical direction). I have placed an additional single point underneath the beam a certain distance away from the beam to be used as a beam contact slave node. I have fixed that node in x and y. My aim is to get the beam to contact that point as it deflects under self weight.
Here is my model:
Here are the restraints:
I have applied the beam contact master end nodes to the beam lines using the ZeroLength Elements dialog. The single point underneath the beam has been assigned as a Beam Contact Slave Node using the same dialog. When I run a static analysis using the following settings, the tcl file created by GiD does not contain the code for the beam contact. The tcl file does contain some comments regarding contact beam elements though (screen shot attached below). I was wondering if I might be doing something wrong with my approach or whether this might be a bug? Thanks.
Here is a portion of the tcl file generated by GiD:
Hello, Good Day.
I am trying to model a displacement beam-column deflection under self weight and a beam contact condition. I am using 2D lines for the beam with a custom fiber section using Steel01. The beam is horizontal with the ends fixed in x and y (y is taken as the vertical direction). I have placed an additional single point underneath the beam a certain distance away from the beam to be used as a beam contact slave node. I have fixed that node in x and y. My aim is to get the beam to contact that point as it deflects under self weight.
Here is my model:
Here are the restraints:
I have applied the beam contact master end nodes to the beam lines using the ZeroLength Elements dialog. The single point underneath the beam has been assigned as a Beam Contact Slave Node using the same dialog. When I run a static analysis using the following settings, the tcl file created by GiD does not contain the code for the beam contact. The tcl file does contain some comments regarding contact beam elements though (screen shot attached below). I was wondering if I might be doing something wrong with my approach or whether this might be a bug? Thanks.
Here is a portion of the tcl file generated by GiD: