LS-DYNA Contact

Viewing Contact Frictional Energy

Thick shells in contact

Tolerance used for Tying Slave Nodes in TIED contacts

Effects of Initial Penetrations

Internal Contact for Solids using *SET_SEGMENT_GENERAL

TIEBREAK Example

Interior Contact for Foams, Honeycombs and Rubbers to eliminate Negative Volumes.

CONTACT_AUTO_MOVE to eliminate initial contact clearances

Eliminating Contact Force Interference in Spotweld Forces Using SPOTTHIN in *CONTROL_CONTACT

Contact and Global Timestep

Tiebreak Contact in LS-DYNA

Consolidating Multiple Contact Definitions to a Single Contact

Contact Surface Generation for Solid Elements

Viscous Damping Coefficient (VDC) in SPH Contact

SPH Contact Definitions

Choice of Rigidwall Treatment

Transient Removal of Initial Penetrations Using DPRFAC Parameter for SOFT=2 Contacts

Initial Penetrations in Contact Interfaces

Modeling Press-Fit Conditions to Include Initial Stresses

Modeling Friction in Contact

Contact Thickness in Single Surface Contact

Contact Modeling in LS-DYNA

One-Way and Two-Way Contact Definitions