{"id":37854,"date":"2019-09-22T23:17:59","date_gmt":"2019-09-22T23:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"\/forum\/forums\/topic\/contact-step-control\/"},"modified":"2019-09-22T23:17:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-22T23:17:59","slug":"contact-step-control","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/contact-step-control\/","title":{"rendered":"Contact Step Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Everyone,<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I am trying to simulate a friction driven mechanism.I am trying to simulate a contact step control approach where the contact body has has friction during the first step and they are frictonless during the second step. I have the two contact step control for two different types of contact with status alive\/dead based on steps. But I am having warning and errors when i run the simulation. Can someone help me with this.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>I referred to this link before but I am not sure if I have to change any parameters on the Analysis Settings. @https:\/\/studentcommunity.ansys.com\/profile\/smedikon\/&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>For your reference I have included pictures about the contacts and error messages&nbsp;on this discussion<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/us.v-cdn.net\/6032193\/uploads\/attachments\/e16d2597-ff23-4a9b-b445-aad00178d6b7\/c04bdf35-4afa-49c9-a9d6-aad0017fc516_ansys.jpg?width=690&amp;upscale=false\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-37854","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_old_topic_id":["10032"],"_bbp_old_topic_author_name_id":["Anonymous"],"_bbp_old_is_topic_anonymous_id":["false"],"_bbp_old_closed_status_id":["publish"],"_bbp_author_ip":[null],"_bbp_old_sticky_status_id":["normal"],"_bbp_likes_count":["0"],"_btv_view_count":["5472"],"_bbp_subscription":["243154"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_status":["publish"],"_bbp_topic_id":["37854"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["240","167645","168720"],"_bbp_voice_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count":["21"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["98398"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["98398"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2019-11-13 21:12:37"]},"test":"vishaish"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/37854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/37854\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}