Contact Surface Generation for Solid Elements

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,…

Consolidating Multiple Contact Definitions to a Single Contact

Over 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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Contact Surface Generation for Solid Elements

Consolidating Multiple Contact Definitions to a Single Contact