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Disk

Contactable disk

	Description
	The Disk element models a contactable disk. The contactable surfaces are the top and bottom of the disk. The thickness of the disk is used as the uncompressed length, $L_{0}$ , in the contact force computation (for details, see Multibody Contact Modes).

Connections

Name	Description	Modelica ID
${frame}_{a}$	Center of disk	frame_a
${port}_{a}$	Contact port	port_a

Parameters

Name	Default	Units	Description	Modelica ID
$R$	$1$	$m$	Radius of disk	R
$T$	$0$	$m$	Thickness of surface	T
center	$false$		True means frame is centered in thickness, otherwise flush with top surface (only for $T$ > 0)	center
$e_{n}$	[1,0,0]		Direction of surface normal	enorm
visualization	$false$		True means geometry is visible in playback	visualization
Color	$green$		Color of the disk	color

See Also

Multibody Contacts

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