Inserting membrane between two test regions

[ewpostek]

Hi,

Would you mind to give a hint ?
I have two regions of different stiffness (different E modulus)
discretised with tetrahedrals.
I would like to introduce a membrane between them.
The easiest way to imagine is to look how the
nucleus is covered with the triangles which
is placed in the cytoplasm.
Thank you,
Elek

[Hugo]

Hi Elek,

Not sure to understand what king of simulation you want to achieve, but I think you could have a look to the AttachConstraint (see examples/Components/constraint/AttachConstraint.scn) this might help.

Cheers,

Hugo

[ewpostek]

Hi Hugo,
Thank you for the hint. I will be looking into.
In the meantime, I prepared the geometry of the single composite object, that consists of the nucleus, cytoplasm, outer membrane, membrane that surrounds the nucleus and tendons.

I made it using the gmsh. Since the nonlinear models are not available to the public yet
(you mentioned about presenting the ideas during your meeting), I would like to calculate the collisions of high number of such objects, but assuming the physically linear material. After reaching the success (hoping) I would start the implementation
of the non-linear models.

I am sending you the gmsh files (*geo, *msh and two pictures).
Obviously, it is necessary to scale down the model (diameter=1).

Best regards,

Elek

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