Significance of IGAP Parameter in *CONTACT in Implicit Analyses

In traditional explicit analysis, there is no convergence criteria that is checked for each time step. However, in Implicit calculations, incremental displacements are evaluated such that a displacement norm and the energy norm are within a pre-defined tolerance before convergence is assumed to be obtained. This is the so-called iterative scheme in Implicit Non-Linear Analyses…

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