Contact interaction not working for restart/import file
Contact interaction not working for restart/import file
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I'm working on an explicit model, nitinol mesh inside a tube. I've completed the loading process in a previous analysis, and now I'm using it for the base of an import model to continue the analysis and release it against a piece of rubber. So, I've successfully brought everything in, ran it, and now I'm working on defining my rubber and re-running it now with the nitinol contacting the rubber. I have all of the surfaces of the new material defined, my interaction is using general contact:
** INTERACTIONS
**
** Interaction: Int-1
*Contact, op=NEW
*Contact Inclusions, ALL EXTERIOR
*Contact Property Assignment
, , contact
My nitinol still interacts with the tube just fine, but when I try pressing it against the rubber it's as if the rubber doesn't exist. There is absolutely no interaction between the nitinol and rubber. I don't know why, because explicit general contact should take care of this, right? What's going on?
** INTERACTIONS
**
** Interaction: Int-1
*Contact, op=NEW
*Contact Inclusions, ALL EXTERIOR
*Contact Property Assignment
, , contact
My nitinol still interacts with the tube just fine, but when I try pressing it against the rubber it's as if the rubber doesn't exist. There is absolutely no interaction between the nitinol and rubber. I don't know why, because explicit general contact should take care of this, right? What's going on?





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RE: Contact interaction not working for restart/import file
Take a look at the section called "Contact controls for general contact in Abaqus/Explicit" in the Analysis Users Guide.
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