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July 30, 2024 at 2:32 pm
David Weed
Ansys Employee

Hi Sanjay,

The the way that the contact pairs and fracture zone are situated are still not very clear to me but, in general, the contact area should not overlap at all with the fracture zone. This is because contact elements will negatively affect the fracture calculations. From the second picture in your last comment, it appears that the error has been resolved and now you are only receiving a warning about checking the fracture parameter calculations. If this is the case, and the fracture zone is free of contact elements, then just make sure that contours 3-6 for any fracture results are relatively close/don't diverge.