{"id":355982,"date":"2024-03-07T21:14:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-07T21:14:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/355982\/"},"modified":"2024-03-07T21:14:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-07T21:14:00","slug":"355982","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/355982\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: lS-DYNA Warning messages-Contact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m not familiar with those warnings.&nbsp; &nbsp;Include images that show the warnings exactly as they appear in the LS-DYNA output (d3hsp or mes*).&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;You can create a part set with all three beam parts and put that part set as SURFA of one *CONTACT_AUTOMATIC_GENERAL.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;If are just concerned only about 1 dof, I&#8217;d probably use a spring element defined with *ELEMENT_DISCRETE and *SECTION_DISCRETE.&nbsp; For the material, use *MAT_SPRING_ELASTOPLASTIC or *MAT_SPRING_NONLINEAR_ELASTIC, depending on what sort of nonlinear behavior you want.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-355982","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/355982","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\/355982\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}