Hello, I want to simulate the impact behaviour of an particle to a plate, both made from aluminium. The impact occurs at very high velocities (->high mesh distortions and fragmentation will be expected), so I intended to model the impact location location by converting to particles and using SPH. The plate is modeled by solid elements and partitioned at the impact vicinity, the partition is then converted to particles. The impact is modeled well but it seems there is no physical connection between sph particles <> FE grid elements of the plate. No acc, disp, stresses etc. are transferred from the SPH partition to the solid elements. What is wrong with my modelling? (The attached figure is not my model but from the abaqus tutorial website. Essentially, this is what I intend to do. I could not find the tutorial to this figure so I tried to model it myself).

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