Body Replacement from Rigid Body to Flexible Body
In the piston system, the user can replace the rigid body with the flexible body of a cylinder or a piston. In this Body replacement, the relationship to this body must be in the same way as before. This relationship indicates:
•How this body is connected to other bodies
•What joint or force is applied to this body
For the body replacement with the maintenance of this relationship, the body-swapping function is supported in RecurDyn/RFlex as Body Swapping.
Figure 1 Concept of swapping
Figure 2 Contact group in the Crank tab
For more information, refer to Contact Entities in RecurDyn/Crank.