{"id":170627,"date":"2023-06-05T07:04:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/can-contact-coefficient-be-made-variable\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:33:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:33:28","slug":"can-contact-coefficient-be-made-variable","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/can-contact-coefficient-be-made-variable\/","title":{"rendered":"Can contact coefficient be made variable?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is possible in Workbench only through a command snippet. The TBFIELD command allows you to set the coefficient of friction based on a set of variables. More information can be found in ANSYS Help, on sections help\/ans_cmd\/Hlp_C_TB.html and help\/ans_cmd\/Hlp_C_TBFIELD.html. An example script could look like this:   &#8211; TB, FRIC, 1 ,,, ISO ! Activate isotropic friction model   &#8211; TBFIELD, NPRES, 1000 ! Define value of normal pressure p1 = 1000  &#8211; TBDATA, 1,0.2  ! Define coefficient of friction at p1 &#8211; TBFIELD, NPRES, 2000 ! Define value of pressure p2 = 2000  &#8211; TBDATA, 1,0.5  ! Define coefficient of friction at p2   &#8211; TBFIELD, NPRES, 3000 ! Define value of pressure p3 = 3000  &#8211; TBDATA, 1,0.3  ! Define coefficient of friction at p3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-170627","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-4431","topic-tag-contact","topic-tag-mechanical","topic-tag-structural-mechanics-structural-and-thermal","topic-tag-structural-and-thermal","topic-tag-structural-mechanics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"acf":[],"custom_fields":[{"0":{"_wp_page_template":["default"],"_bbp_last_active_time":["2\/6\/2023 20:20"],"_bbp_forum_id":["27795"],"_bbp_author_ip":["209.182.204.162"],"_btv_view_count":["1046"],"siebel_km_number":["2042797"],"product_version":["17"],"km_published_date":["2016-08-02T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Structural Mechanics"],"application_name":["Mechanical"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/170627","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\/170627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}