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Elasto-plastic contact problem of laying wire rope using FE analysis

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The three-dimensional elasto-plastic contact model, formulated with variational equalities, has been described for laying wire rope in this paper. The augmented Lagrangian multiplier method has been applied to calculate both the normal contact force and friction contact force, and the radial return mapping algorithm has been employed to handle stick/slip phases of friction. With a graphical user interface (GUI), a program for calculating boundary conditions of a three-dimensional finite element modelling is developed to create external files, which are in the format of the ANSYS parametric design language (APDL) and the external files can be accessed by ANSYS for nonlinear analysis. FE simulation of a simple wire strand has been given and the effects of friction coefficient and self-rotating ratio on the contact stress have been analysed. Also the effects of them on the forming stress and strain have been discussed.

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  1. State Key Laboratory of Plastic Forming Simulation and Die & Mold Tech., Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, 430074, P.R. China

    J.-F. Sun, G.-L. Wang & H.-O. Zhang

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Sun, JF., Wang, GL. & Zhang, HO. Elasto-plastic contact problem of laying wire rope using FE analysis. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 26, 17–22 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-004-2120-9

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