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It depends on both Contact and target side material properties.  For example: If a material A has conductivity (inverse of resistivity) which is more than both conductivity of  B and C which are in a contact. ANSYS chooses maximum conductivity from underlying contact material (A in this case) and multiply it with 10000 to get a perameter &#8216;_maxCond&#8217;.  ECC = _maxCond \/ ASMDIAG  where _maxCond is the maximum electrical conductance defined in the model, and ASMDIAG is the diagonal of the overall geometry bounding box.  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