{"id":355589,"date":"2024-03-06T11:05:11","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T11:05:11","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/355589\/"},"modified":"2024-03-06T11:06:24","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T11:06:24","slug":"355589","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/355589\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: Calculating contact stiffness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Well, &hellip; A ist the <strong>area <\/strong>of the shell segment &ndash; 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.&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;And alpha or fs in equation 29.19 is 0.1 as stated in the screenshot above!&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;The contact stiffness is not output by LS-DYNA.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-355589","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/355589","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/reply"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/355589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}