{"id":391962,"date":"2024-10-30T10:34:14","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T10:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-retrieve-contact-area-as-elemental-values-in-ansys-mechanical\/"},"modified":"2024-10-30T10:34:14","modified_gmt":"2024-10-30T10:34:14","slug":"how-to-retrieve-contact-area-as-elemental-values-in-ansys-mechanical","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/how-to-retrieve-contact-area-as-elemental-values-in-ansys-mechanical\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Retrieve Contact Area as Elemental Values in Ansys Mechanical?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;Hello everyone,&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;I&#8217;m currently studying contact behavior in Ansys Mechanical and have set up my models using the following parameters:&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Contact Formulation<\/strong>: Augmented Lagrange<\/li>\n<li><strong>Detection Method<\/strong>: Nodal &#8211; Projected Normal From Contact<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lt;p&gt;My objective is to retrieve the contact area for each element in contact, and I&rsquo;m specifically looking for a way to obtain this data as elemental values. I am already familiar with:&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Solution Information Tracker: <\/strong>Contact &#8211; Force Convergence&nbsp;<strong>&lt;br&gt;<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>Commands<\/strong>: CONTNMISC58, CONTNMISC59, CONTNMISC60, CONTNMISC61, and CONTNMISC184<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&lt;p&gt;However, I was unsuccessfull with thoses methodologies. I&#8217;m not certain if there is a direct method to extract the contact area as elemental data rather than as a whole contact region. Does anyone have experience with this or know of a workaround to access the contact area on an element-by-element basis? Any scripts, command recommendations, or insights into post-processing techniques would be greatly appreciated!&lt;\/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Thank you!&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-391962","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-area","topic-tag-contact","topic-tag-mechanical"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_subscription":["56504","431745"],"_bbp_author_ip":["24.134.185.237"],"_btv_view_count":["428"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"],"_bbp_topic_id":["391962"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_engagement":["56504","431745"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_reply_count":["8"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["393864"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["393864"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2024-11-12 16:49:32"]},"test":"hugo-hennionendolab-org"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/391962","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\/391962\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=391962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}