Specify General Contact

Specify general contact to define the contact behavior when the arrowhead is inserted into the wall.

General contact interactions allow you to define contact between many or all regions of the model with a single interaction. Typically, general contact interactions are defined for an all-inclusive surface that contains all exterior faces and edges. In this example, the arrowhead and the wall define the all-inclusive surface.

The general contact algorithm models surface-to-surface contact, edge-to-surface contact, edge-to-edge contact, and vertex-to-surface contact.

In this example, you will create a general contact interaction between the moving arrowhead and the fixed wall. As the arrowhead moves further into the wall, the surface-to-surface contact is predominant. General contact automatically handles transitions between predominant contact surface types as contact conditions evolve.