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Torus

Contactable torus

	Description
	The Torus component models a contactable torus. The small radius, $r$ , of the torus 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 torus	frame_a
${port}_{a}$	Contact port	port_a

Parameters

Name	Default	Units	Description	Modelica ID
visualization	$false$		True means geometry is visible in playback	visualization
$e_{axis}$	[1,0,0]		Axial unit vector	e_axis
Color	$orange$		Color of the torus	color
$R$	$1$	$m$	Big radius	R
$r$	$0.1$	$m$	Small radius	r

See Also

Multibody Contacts

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