Hi Robert,

Thanks a lot for the reply. So I guess it is not possible to do that with general case of two bodies. 

Do you think I can use ContactSphere to do that as one of my object in two bodies contact problem is an elastic sphere.

Samyak


On Wednesday, 11 January 2017 11:49:49 UTC, Robert Cimrman wrote:
Hi Samyak,

sfepy does not support contacts of several deformable bodies yet and it is a
difficult thing to implement properly.

r.

On 01/11/2017 11:49 AM, samyak jain wrote:
> Hello everyone,
>
> I am new to Sfepy and to Finite Element Analysis. I am currently trying to
> solve a contact problem between two bodies to the find the displacement and
> the stress.
> The first body is a hemisphere (could be other shape-later on) and the
> second body is any free-form shape.
> The second body is fixed and there is a specified displacement boundary
> condition on the first body.
> That is all regarding the problem definition and the boundary conditions.
>
> I have seen few examples in the gallery section sfepy website and I found
> an example of Contact Sphere, Contact plane and an example with
> displacement boundary condition.
> But in all these examples, there is always one mesh and consequently one
> domain where we can define our boundary regions and solve the PDE.
> But in my case, I have two mesh as I cannot combine them. If I can combine
> them as one mesh, I can solve the problem but I cannot do that.
>
> So, how would I progress with this problem. I have two mesh, so I will have
> two different domain and them use it to define regions. Now the problem
> arises where should I define the field variable. What I understand that
> there will be two different field variable based on two domain but I am not
> sure how to use sfepy to solve such a problem.
>
> Could someone please guide me by an example of such a case where contact
> between multiple bodies is done with multiple mesh being used. I have tried
> and I am unable to come up with a proper way to use sfepy with this problem.
>
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Samyak
>