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Deepak
Ansys Employee

Frictional contact is a nonlinear contact type and is slightly more computationally expensive than linear contacts like bonded or no separation. However, using a linear contact in place of a frictional one in such scenarios would be an oversimplification and could adversely impact the accuracy of the results.