Ansys Learning Forum Forums Discuss Simulation General Mechanical Bonded contact does not work between shell body and solid body. Reply To: Bonded contact does not work between shell body and solid body.

Govindan Nagappan
Ansys Employee

In details of contact region, you can set yes for "shell thickness effect" to account for the gap

Also increase the pinball radius in details of contact. You can set this to a value larger than the gap

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