This chapter discusses features related to contact and interaction modeling. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:
“Surface-to-surface small-sliding contact accounting for thickness,” Section 11.1
“Improved contact stresses for second-order elements,” Section 11.2
“Accounting for shell offsets in the general contact algorithm,” Section 11.3
“Performance improvements for interacting radiation heat transfer,” Section 11.7
“Defining concentrated convective and radiative behavior,” Section 11.8
“Controlling nodal erosion for general contact,” Section 11.9
“Performance improvements for general contact,” Section 11.10
“Stabilization of multi-body contact problems with rigid body modes,” Section 11.11
“Elimination of multiple state and model files during element reordering,” Section 11.12