{"id":64057,"date":"2018-09-12T16:19:31","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/reply\/64057\/"},"modified":"2018-09-12T16:19:31","modified_gmt":"2018-09-12T16:19:31","slug":"64057","status":"publish","type":"reply","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/reply\/64057\/","title":{"rendered":"Reply To: defining self contact in static structural"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You mesh (I added Face Meshing control) then use a Mesh Edit to merge nodes that are within a tolerance value. <br \/>That will give you a connected mesh.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/3e825b35-df61-45f5-9693-a81101684b62\/12fdc221-d349-4101-9990-a959010ce6cf_2018-09-12-12-17-15-a---static-structural---mechanical-[ansys-mechanical-enterprise].jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>If you have a material model to share, please attach the xml export in a zip file attached to your reply.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Kind regards,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Peter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-64057","reply","type-reply","status-publish","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/replies\/64057","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\/64057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}