u/Own_Stranger_6290

Hello,

I would like to analyse the strain and stress of an aluminium piece for sailing. The piece is the aluminium low friction ring displayed in BLACK in the photo.

This ring is hold by two ropes in tensions, which applied loads on this ring.

I need to model how the rope interacts with the aluminium ring probably.

I don't know how to model a rope like this.

I try with an orthotropic material, but I didn't achieve to do the right parameters for the contacts between the metal piece and the rope.

Should I use abaqus Explicit for such an analysis ?

How to parameter the rope material for a realistic results ? Anisotropic ? Which values ?

If you have any kind of tutorial that I could watch or read, I'm interested.

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