Rigid Walls

Rigid wall entities provide a method for treating a contact between a rigid surface and nodal points of a deformable body. In the LS-DYNA and Radioss user profiles, rigid walls can be created in the Model and Solver browsers.

LS-DYNA Cards

Card Description
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_CYLINDER
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_CYLINDER_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_CYLINDER_MOTION
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_CYLINDER_MOTION_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_FLAT
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_FLAT(FINITE)
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_FLAT_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_FLAT_DISPLAY(FINITE)
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_FLAT_MOTION
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_FLAT_MOTION(FINITE)
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_FLAT_MOTION_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_FLAT_MOTION_DISPLAY(FINITE)
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_PRISM
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_PRISM(FINITE)
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_PRISM_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_PRISM_DISPLAY(FINITE)
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_PRISM_MOTION
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_PRISM_MOTION(FINITE)
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_PRISM_MOTION_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_PRISM_MOTION_DISPLAY(FINITE)
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_SPHERE
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_SPHERE_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_SPHERE_MOTION
*RIGIDWALL_GEOMETRIC_SPHERE_MOTION_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR Define planar rigid walls with either finite or infinite size.
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_FINITE
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_FINITE_FORCES
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_FINITE_MOVING
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_FINITE_MOVING_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_FINITE_MOVING_FORCES
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_FINITE_MOVING_FORCES_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_MOVING_FORCES
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_MOVING
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_MOVING_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_MOVING_FORCES
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_MOVING_FORCES_DISPLAY
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_ORTHO
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_ORTHO_FINITE
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_ORTHO_FINITE_FORCES
*RIGIDWALL_PLANAR_ORTHO_FORCES

OptiStruct

Card Description
RWALADD Defines a rigid wall set as a union of rigid walls defined via RWALL entries.
Note: Bulk Data Entry
RWALL Defines a rigid wall for geometric nonlinear analysis.
Note: Bulk Data Entry
/RWALL/PLANE Infinite Plane rigid wall
/RWALL/CYL Infinite Cylinder rigid wall
/RWALL/SPHER Spherical rigid wall
/RWALL/PARAL Parallelogram rigid wall
/RWALL/THERM ALE infinite plane rigid wall with thermal conductivity

Radioss Cards

Card Description
/RWALL/PLANE Infinite Plane rigid wall
/RWALL/CYL Infinite Cylinder rigid wall
/RWALL/SPHER Spherical rigid wall
/RWALL/PARAL Parallelogram rigid wall
/RWALL/THERM ALE infinite plane rigid wall with thermal conductivity