This chapter discusses features related to contact and interaction modeling. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• “Support for Eulerian surfaces in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 10.1

• “General contact performance,” Section 10.2

• “General contact diagnostics,” Section 10.3

• “Visualizing initial strain-free adjustments,” Section 10.4

• “Support for element and contact pair removal and reactivation in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 10.5

• “VCCT in Abaqus/Explicit,” Section 10.6

• “Improved connector performance in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 10.7