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General Mechanical

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Brinell hardness test

    • Kariuki Karanja
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      Why is it that the indentation area is not taking the shape of the indenter. The geometry is a 2D axisymmetry. Here is how the total deformation looks like. 

    • peteroznewman
      Subscriber

      The contact definition might have a pinball radius that is too small, or the trim feature is excluding some elements or the edges might have multiple segments that were not selected. There can be many reasons for this.

      It is best to look at the image at a 1.0 True scale and not have any other value.

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