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Disk

Contactable disk

 

Description

Connections

Parameters

Description

The Disk element models a contactable disk. The contactable surfaces are the top and bottom of the disk. The thickness of the disk is used as the uncompressed length, , in the contact force computation (for details, see Multibody Contact Modes).

Connections

Name

Description

Modelica ID

Center of disk

frame_a

Contact port

port_a

Parameters

Name

Default

Units

Description

Modelica ID

Radius of disk

R

Thickness of surface

T

center

 

True means frame is centered in thickness, otherwise flush with top surface (only for  > 0)

center

[1,0,0]

 

Direction of surface normal

enorm

visualization

 

True means geometry is visible in playback

visualization

Color

 

Color of the disk

color

See Also

Elements

Multibody

Multibody Contacts

 


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