Description: Pressure penetration loading can now be applied to the contact pair surfaces defined by using solid, cylindrical solid, shell, continuum shell, membrane, and rigid elements in three dimensions. It can also be applied to an analytical three-dimensional rigid surface when the surface is defined as the master surface of a contact pair. Two important enhancements are made for planar and axisymmetric models as well as for three-dimensional models:

• Pressure penetration loading can now be used with any contact formulation within the contact pair framework.

• The element loop parallelization calculation is available.

Figure 9–1 shows the pressure penetration between two three-dimensional rings started from the bottom side at the outside corner of the contact surfaces.

Interaction module:
   InteractionCreate: Pressure penetration