{"id":170638,"date":"2023-06-05T07:04:53","date_gmt":"2023-06-05T07:04:53","guid":{"rendered":"\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-account-for-penetration-in-all-of-the-contacts\/"},"modified":"2023-07-31T12:33:29","modified_gmt":"2023-07-31T12:33:29","slug":"how-to-account-for-penetration-in-all-of-the-contacts","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/forums\/topic\/how-to-account-for-penetration-in-all-of-the-contacts\/","title":{"rendered":"How to account for penetration in all of the contacts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Penetration is determined by penetration tolerance factor and underlying element depth. Three are three options to fix it: 1. Reduce the tolerance by either a factor or a value under Penetration tolerance under contact; 2. Refine mesh near contact regions; 3. Use normal Lagrange formulation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-170638","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-contact","topic-tag-mechanical","topic-tag-structural-and-thermal","topic-tag-structural-mechanics","topic-tag-structural-contact"],"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":["2374"],"siebel_km_number":["2044466"],"product_version":[""],"km_published_date":["2016-10-29T00:00:00.000Z"],"family":["Structural Mechanics"],"application_name":["Mechanical"]},"test":"articlesansys-com"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics\/170638","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\/170638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovationspace.ansys.com\/knowledge\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}