Cause of overshoot in contact pressure value for CZM

- October 4, 2017 at 12:20 pm
  
  pgl
  Ansys Employee
  
  What is the cause of overshoot in contact pressure value for CZM?
- October 17, 2017 at 9:40 am
  
  Arun
  Ansys Employee
  
  The overshoot in the value of contact pressure is due to artificial damping coefficient. Debonding is generally accompanied by convergence difficulties in the Newton-Raphson solution. Artificial damping is used to stabilize the numerical solution. In general a very small value of 1E-8 is used.