10.3 General contact diagnostics

Product: Abaqus/Standard  

Benefits: It is now easier to determine causes of diagnostic messages associated with general contact in Abaqus/Standard.

Description: Diagnostic messages for general contact now specify more concise surfaces involved in the issue (in addition to identifying a slave node involved in the issue, as in previous versions). Surfaces referenced by these messages are internal “component” surfaces automatically created for general contact, with names such as General_Contact_Component_3. It is often helpful to visualize these surfaces in the Visualization module of Abaqus/CAE when determining the cause of a diagnostic message. In previous versions these diagnostic messages referenced an internal surface called General_Contact_Faces, which includes all surface facets considered by general contact.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Manual

Abaqus/CAE User's Manual