General contact in Abaqus/Standard

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial opening: default behavior.

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial opening: resolve opening.

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial opening: remain open.

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial opening and single-sided surface: resolve opening.

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial opening and single-sided surface: remain open.

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial opening and single-sided surfaces 2 and 4 (SPOS).

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial opening and single-sided surfaces 1 and 6 (SPOS).

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial opening and single-sided surfaces SPOS (all surfaces).

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial overclosure: default behavior.

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial overclosure: retain overclosure.

Shells with S4R and S3 elements with initial overclosure: resolve overclosure.

Cross shells with S4R elements: default behavior.

Cross shells with S4R elements: single-sided surface.

C3D8R elements with initial opening: default behavior.

C3D8R elements with initial opening: resolve opening.

C3D8R elements with initial opening: remain open.

C3D8R elements with initial opening and single-sided surface: resolve opening.

C3D8R elements with initial opening and single-sided surface: remain open.

C3D8R elements with initial overclosure: default behavior.

C3D8R elements with initial overclosure: retain overclosure.

C3D8R elements with initial overclosure: resolve overclosure.

Shrink fit of two concentric rings, two-dimensional.

Shrink fit of two concentric rings, three-dimensional.

Shrink fit of two concentric spheres.

Push down of an inner cone piece against an outer cone piece.

Sliding blocks with feature edges activated.

Tennis ball hitting bracket modeled with beam-to-surface contact.

DC2D4 elements using general contact with an embedded crack with gap conduction for heat transfer across the crack.

DC3D8R elements using general contact with gap conduction.

DCAX4 elements using general contact with gap conduction.

DCAX8 elements using general contact with gap conduction.

DC2D8 elements using general contact with gap conduction.

Double-sided DSAX1 shell elements using general contact with gap radiation.

Double-sided DSAX2 shell elements using general contact with gap radiation.

Double-sided DS3 shell elements using general contact with gap conduction.

Double-sided DS3 shell elements using general contact with gap radiation.

Double-sided DS4 shell elements using general contact with gap conduction.

Double-sided DS4 shell elements using general contact with gap radiation.

Double-sided DS6 shell elements using general contact with gap conduction.

Double-sided DS6 shell elements using general contact with gap radiation.

Double-sided DS8 shell elements using general contact with gap conduction.

Double-sided DS8 shell elements using general contact with gap radiation.

DC2D4E elements using general contact with gap heat, electrical conduction, and electrical heat generation.

DC2D8E elements using general contact with gap radiation, electrical conduction, and electrical heat generation.

DC3D8E elements using general contact with gap heat, electrical conduction, and electrical heat generation.

DC3D20E elements using general contact with gap radiation, electrical conduction, and electrical heat generation.

DC3D8 elements using general contact with gap conduction. The radiation heat transfer is modeled with cavity radiation.

DC2D4 elements using general contact with user subroutine UINTER modeling heat transfer interaction behavior.

Beam as main edge-to-surface contact with DC3D8 and DC1D2 element-based surfaces in thermal interactions.

Beam as main edge-to-surface contact with DC3D8E and DC1D2E element-based surfaces in thermal and electrical interactions.

Beam as main edge-to-surface contact with DC3D8 and DC1D2 element-based surfaces in thermal interaction with gap conduction.

Beam as main edge-to-surface contact with DC3D8 and DC1D2 element-based surfaces in thermal interaction with gap radiation.

Beam as main edge-to-surface contact with DS4 and DC1D2 element-based surfaces in thermal interaction.

Beam as main edge-to-surface contact with DC3D20 and DCC1D2 element-based surfaces in thermal interaction.

Beam as main edge-to-surface and surface-to-surface contact with DC3D8 and DCC1D2 element-based surfaces in thermal interaction in a heat exchanger model.

CPS4 elements where opposing faces of a crack are in self-contact.

C3D8R elements where opposing faces of a crack are in self-contact.

CPE4 elements and analytical rigid surface. User-specified clearance normals and internally computed clearances.

CPE4 elements and analytical rigid surface. User-specified clearances.

C3D8 elements with the LCP solution technique for frictionless small-sliding contact.

C3D8 and R3D4 elements with the LCP solution technique for frictionless small-sliding contact.

CCL12 cylindrical elements modeling an initial interference fit.

MCL6 cylindrical membrane elements modeling an initial interference fit.

C3D10PT coupled elements modeling soils consolidation.

S4R elements with various surface geometry corrections.

C3D8 and C3D6 elements with toroidal surface geometry corrections.

C3D8R modeling a bolted flange.

C3D8R elements with vertex-to-surface contact; initially active contact deactivated, reactivated later with shrink fit.

C3D8R and S4R elements with various general contact formulations that are initially active, deactivated, and reactivated in subsequent steps.

C3D8RH elements with deformable-to-analytic rigid contact; contact activated after moving the analytic rigid surface, resulting in an overclosure resolved as a shrink fit.

C3D8RH elements; initially inactive contact activated in a later step to activate cohesive contact.

CAX4R, CAX3H, and CAX4H elements with deformable-to-analytic rigid contact, activated and deactivated across several steps.

PIPE22 elements with edge-to-edge radial contact to model tube-in-tube insertion; contact activated in later step.

S4 elements; initially active cohesive contact, deactivated and reactivated in a later step.

C3D8PT elements with contact; activated in a later step.

T3D2 elements with edge-to-edge radial contact; contact deactivated to unwind a bundle of twisted wires.

C3D8R elements with both small- and finite-sliding tracking in general contact; contact activated and deactivated for finite-sliding interactions.

C3D8RHT elements with contact deactivated in a coupled temperature-displacement analysis.

B31 elements with contact deactivated in a later step.

S4R elements with contact activated and deactivated for deformable-to-analytic rigid contact.

C3D8R elements with initially inactive contact activated progressively during assembly followed by loading.

CPE4R elements modeling two beam sections with contact initially inactive.

Restart analysis of previous model with cohesive contact activated to attach the disconnected beam sections.

C3D4 elements using general contact and the unsymmetric solver to handle additional compression.

C3D8 elements using general contact and the unsymmetric solver to handle additional compression.

Three-dimensional analysis using general contact formulation containing a gasket modeled with gasket elements.

GK3D6 elements contacting a slider using general contact

Paper rolling model using general contact formulation.

CPE4H elements modeling a slider with general contact.

CPE8H elements modeling a slider with general contact.

Balanced main-secondary formulation with general contact for the spherical indentation problem.

Initial contact openings with strain-free adjustments for the spherical indentation problem.

Initial contact overclosures with strain-free adjustments for the spherical indentation problem.