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Friction at the beginning of the analysis

Friction at the beginning of the analysis

Friction at the beginning of the analysis

(OP)
Here is my assembly before the analysis:

There is a friction coefficient defined between bodies A and bodies B.

When the simulation starts, the assembly moves to the right, but the bodies A stay in the place, in which they were at the beginning:


There is no deformation at the initial stages of the analysis, so the bodies A are not pulled by bodies B.
How can I cause the move of bodies A? I heard, that in MSC Marc software, there is an option called "links", which links some points in first body with some points in second body. Some small Young's modulus value is defined between them and then, at the beginning, they can interact with each other.
How can I resolve this problem in Abaqus?

RE: Friction at the beginning of the analysis

(OP)
I found a function (in interaction module) called "connector builder", but it has many features and it is not intuitive. Can I obtain desirable effect using this function?

RE: Friction at the beginning of the analysis

(OP)
The warning appears:
There is zero FORCE everywhere in the model based on the default criterion. please check the value of the average FORCE during the current iteration to verify that the FORCE is small enough to be treated as zero. if not, please use the solution controls to reset the criterion for zero FORCE.

Maybe, bodies A do not move, because of it.

I did not say, that I am using the submodeling technique. This is the submodel of bigger model. This is the rolling process, and submodel represents the middle area of the slab.

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