{"id":382814,"date":"2024-09-16T19:38:38","date_gmt":"2024-09-16T19:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/382814\/"},"modified":"2024-09-16T19:38:38","modified_gmt":"2024-09-16T19:38:38","slug":"382814","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/382814\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: How to determine damage initiation when using inter element\uff1f"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;With regards to simulating debonding or delamination via cohesive zone modeling &lt;span style=&#8221;mso-spacerun: yes;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp;&lt;\/span&gt;(CZM) there is some overlap between the use of INTER20x elements and CONTA17x elements. &nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;INTER20x elements require shared topology between the two debonding bodies, while contact allows for different mesh densities between the two bodies.&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;The CZM damage initiation and evolution criteria for both INTER20x and CONTA17x are described in Section 4.11 of the MAPDL Theory Manual.&nbsp;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;The CZM Debonding Parameter (DPARAM) and Fracture Energies (DENERI and DENERII) can be post processed via ETABLE command&lt;span style=&#8221;mso-spacerun: yes;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp; &lt;\/span&gt;(ETABLE,lab,nmisc, ).&lt;span style=&#8221;mso-spacerun: yes;&#8221;&gt;&nbsp; &lt;\/span&gt;&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p class=&#8221;MsoNormal&#8221;&gt;Please refer to the CONTA17x element Documentation for the appropriate NMISC values.&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-382814","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/382814","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\/382814\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=382814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}