11.3 Edge-to-edge general contact enhancement

Product: Abaqus/Explicit  

Benefits: You can now obtain more efficient and robust edge-to-edge contact interactions in general contact in Abaqus/Explicit.

Description: Edge-to-edge contact now allows for more local tracking information to be utilized to reduce the extent of global tracking required. This change will typically result in better edge-to-edge contact performance in analyses that include extensive edge-to-edge contact interactions. The new algorithm is active by default for all edge-to-edge contact interactions defined in a model.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Manual

Abaqus Keywords Reference Manual