pressure results

- February 27, 2020 at 12:51 pm
  
  m.caragiuli
  Subscriber
  
  Hi,
  
  following a picture about the pressure output evaluated by means of the contact tool after solution. I would like to understand if positive values refer to tension and negative to compression or the reason I get those values..since bodies are just sliding on each other.
  
  Thank you!
- February 27, 2020 at 1:32 pm
  
  peteroznewman
  Subscriber
  
  Positive pressure is a compressive load on the contact face. Try using a mesh with elements about 10 times smaller on that face. You can do that by dragging and dropping the contact onto the Mesh and it will create a Mesh Control for that contact where you can specify smaller element sizes.