Hi FEA way,
Thank you for your reply but forgive me that I couldnt understand your answer completely as I am quite new to ABAQUS.
As far as I understood, you want me to use General contact AND Self contact.
Here are your instructions that I understood:
1. Create a set named 'elerode', where it includes all solid elements in the model that use material failure, which is the upper layer of my workpiece.
2. Create a surface named 'surfall',(type element) where it includes all exterior faces in the model and all interior faces of elerode
3. Create 'Self contact' and select 'surfall' as the surface
4. In the 'Self contact', assign Contact Control.
My Questions:
1. for 'surfall', I could only select all exterior faces of my workpiece/tool,and I could only select type GEOMETRY/MESH, What do you mean by selecting 'all interior faces of elecrode'?
2. I dont understand about '*Contact controls assignment, nodal erosion=yes'
Sorry for your inconvenience and I would be very grateful if you could provide a more detailed response. Thank you very much.