Hello everyone, is it possible to obtain CFN and CFS values for the SURFACE to SURFACE contact. I looked at the manual but I could not see any clear statement. Thank you in advance.
Yes, and only for this type of contact:
The quantities CF, CFN and CFS represent the total force, total normal force and total shear force acting on the slave surface, respectively, for a selected face-to-face penalty contact pair.
In table given, it states these values are listed in .dat file but this file is empty. Also, i did not see any command to print out these values so i assumed they are printed by default. Can the reason why they do not show up be the warning below ?
*WARNING in gentiedmpc: no tied MPC
generated for node 960
no opposite master face
found; in-face tolerance: 2.2208972549822414E-002
i am getting this warning during the solution.
It can be printed with:
*Contact print, Master=..., Slave=...
CF, CFN, CFS
No, it only means that some nodes were not tied because either the position tolerance is too small or they are not supposed to be tied.
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I perfectly worked. Really thank you.
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