{"id":167150,"date":"2023-04-05T14:33:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-05T14:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/on-what-basis-does-the-ansys-classify-the-contact-status-into-3-or-2-or-0-or-1-or-2-or-3-status\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:32:26","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:32:26","slug":"on-what-basis-does-the-ansys-classify-the-contact-status-into-3-or-2-or-0-or-1-or-2-or-3-status","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/on-what-basis-does-the-ansys-classify-the-contact-status-into-3-or-2-or-0-or-1-or-2-or-3-status\/","title":{"rendered":"On what basis does the ansys classify the contact status into -3 or -2 or 0 or 1 or 2 or 3 status?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Open and Far field &#8220;STAT=0&#8221; :  When the target surfaces of the contact pair does not fall within the pinball radius from the &#8220;Contact Element Integration &#8221; the status is set to &#8220;0&#8221;  Open but Near Field &#8220;STAT=1&#8221; :  A contact element is considered to be in near-field contact when the element enters a pinball region, which is centered on the integration point of the contact element. The computational cost of searching for contact depends on the size of the pinball region.  Sliding &#8220;STAT=2&#8221;  : This status calculation is bit more complex, because SLIDE is also considered along with normal distance. If is in touching condition &#038; SLIDE returns a non zero value then the STAT becomes 2  Sticking &#8220;STAT=3&#8221;: This status becomes active if the normal distance is zero (contacts are touching) &#038; SLIDE also returns &#8220;0&#8221; value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-167150","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-19-2","topic-tag-contact","topic-tag-general","topic-tag-mechanical-apdl","topic-tag-structural-and-thermal","topic-tag-structural-mechanics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["5\/4\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27795"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["2501"],"siebel_km_number":["2057668"],"product_version":["19.2"],"km_published_date":["2018-12-21T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Structural Mechanics"],"application_name":["Mechanical APDL"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/167150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/167150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}