Modeling Contact using the General Contact method in Abaqus

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This tutorial demonstrates how to simulate contact in Abaqus using the General Contact method.

New Topics Covered

Understand General Contact in Abaqus
Instruct Abaqus to use General Contact in the analysis and assign global interaction properties
Specify interaction properties for specific contact pairs and override defaults
Use CSHEAR1 and CSHEAR2 to find shear stresses
Request history output variables well suited to contact analysis problems

Overview

In this tutorial we will analyze 3 parts that come in contact with each other using the general contact method (as opposed to the contact pairs method). The setup is the same as it was in the previous tutorial, and is displayed in the following image.

We will simulate friction between one of the contact pairs, just as we did in the previous tutorial.

The dimensions of the parts are the same as well.

Procedure

a. Overview

B. Part 1

This article is part of a series titled Abaqus FEA Tutorial Series

Abaqus FEA Contact General Contact CSHEAR1 CSHEAR2 tutorial

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