{"id":429111,"date":"2025-04-16T08:49:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/convergence-in-contact-debonding\/"},"modified":"2025-04-16T08:49:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-16T08:49:51","slug":"convergence-in-contact-debonding","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/forums\/topic\/convergence-in-contact-debonding\/","title":{"rendered":"Convergence in contact debonding"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&lt;p&gt;I have a single lap shear test involving a 2 rectangular shaped specimens (one in aluminum and one in woven cf) bonded together with an adhesive I created with czm formulation (wanting to investigate the decohesion of the specimen within the adhesive interface). Contact is defined as bonded and pure penalty formulation, convergence is not reached. Could you please list a series of suggestions to achieve convergence in this specific contact debonding tool in static structural? And also a checklist of the important settings so that I can check if I missed somethimng&lt;\/p&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-429111","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-adhesivelybondedsinglelapjoint-1","topic-tag-cohesive-zone-modeling","topic-tag-cohezivezonemodeling-1","topic-tag-contact-method","topic-tag-contact-debonding"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_bbp_forum_id":["27791"],"_bbp_topic_id":["429111"],"_bbp_subscription":["471807","480261"],"_bbp_author_ip":["62.110.130.195"],"_bbp_last_reply_id":["429140"],"_bbp_last_active_id":["429140"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2025-04-16 11:44:59"],"_bbp_reply_count":["3"],"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":["0"],"_bbp_voice_count":["2"],"_bbp_engagement":["471807","480261"],"_btv_view_count":["126"],"_bbp_topic_status":["unanswered"]},"test":"leonardo-barduccistudio-unibo-it"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/429111","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\/429111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/forum\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}