This chapter discusses features related to contact and interaction modeling. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:
“Penalty method for contact enforcement in ABAQUS/Standard,” Section 11.1
“Conversion of severe discontinuity equations,” Section 11.3
“Parallelization of edge-to-edge contact in ABAQUS/Explicit,” Section 11.5
“Parallelization of contact with eroding solids in ABAQUS/Explicit,” Section 11.6
“Analytical surfaces in general contact in ABAQUS/Explicit,” Section 11.7
“Enhancements to threaded bolt connection modeling,” Section 11.8
“Interaction and contact property editor enhancements,” Section 11.9