Contact element supported in single frame

- October 4, 2017 at 12:20 pm
  
  vganore
  Ansys Employee
  
  Are contact element supported in single frame restarts?
- October 17, 2017 at 10:36 am
  
  Arun
  Ansys Employee
  
  No. The contact object and contact element connectives are saved in rdb file. A single frame restart does not use the rdb file so that the contact behavior can change during and after a restart. In particular, contact results from a single frame restart cannot be trusted with frictional contact or contact stiffness updated per each iteration.