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[Bernd Hochholdinger]

 

Well, … A ist the area of the shell segment – you already had stated that yourself. You can use a postprocessor like LS-PrePost to measure the area of a shell element or calculate it within your Matlab script based on the nodal coordinates that define the shell element.    

And alpha or fs in equation 29.19 is 0.1 as stated in the screenshot above!

The contact stiffness is not output by LS-DYNA.