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  3. Contact is set up but fails to be recognized. It passes right thru. Why?

Contact is set up but fails to be recognized. It passes right thru. Why?

Tagged: 19.1, contact, General, mechanical, structural-and-thermal, structural-mechanics
    • March 17, 2023 at 9:00 am
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      It is recommended to try and get a very small displacement based load to work, if it is a precarious relationship at an edge, try supplementing the surf-surf contact with the edge to surface contact. This will put contact detection right at the edge nodes. Please note that surf-surf can be wrapped around the edge and then switched to nodal detection. Also, if a force based load is needed, try starting with a displacement and then switch to force after contact at the edge has been established.

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