By default, when a solid part ID is included in a contact slave or master part set, LS-DYNA generates a segment list for only the outer skin of the solid element volume. This is truly only if the slave or master set type is a segment list since for a node slave or master list, [...]
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Contact Surface Generation for Solid Elements
Published by August 23rd, 2007 in LS-DYNA Contact. 2 CommentsConsolidating Multiple Contact Definitions to a Single Contact
Published by August 23rd, 2007 in LS-DYNA Bytes and LS-DYNA Contact. 3 CommentsOver the last few years, the simplicity of defining a global AUTOMATIC_SINGLE_SURFACE contact to treat the interactions between multiple parts of varying stiffnesses and element types has changed the way we model contact interfaces. They are not only simple to define but also promote better modeling since they hugely eliminate the need to manually identify [...]
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