33.5. Contact Entities

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.

../_images/image09811.png — Figure 33.80 Concept of swapping

For more information, refer to Contact Entities in RecurDyn/Crank.