Abaqus

For Contact and Equation

Solver Abaqus
AUTO IGNORE EDGE METHOD Cylindrical / Planar (Common edges will be detected in the contact slave surfaces and added to the selected contact type)
Interaction
Surface Interaction Name To be specified by the user and refer in the contact definition below
Surface Behaviour No Separation / Hard / Tabular / Exponential / Gap Conductance / None / No Separation,Hard / Hard,Penalty-Linear / Hard,Augmented-Lagrange / No Separation,Hard,Penalty-Linear / No Separation,Hard,Augmented-Lagrange
Friction User have to enter the friction co-efficient value
Conductance Specify the conductance values(comma separated)
Clearance Specify the clearance values(comma separated)
Temperature Specify the temperature values(comma separated)
Contact
Method Body/NodeSet/ElemSet/Group
Master Master Body / NodeSet / ElemSet / Group name / GROUP_NUMBER_TEMPLATE
Slave Slave Body / NodeSet / ElemSet / Group name / GROUP_NUMBER_TEMPLATE
All bodies True (Specify only for general contact - all bodies)
Ignore bodies Ignore Body / Group name (Specify only for general contact - all bodies)
Contact Type Tie, Contact_Small_Sliding, Contact_Finite_Sliding, Contact_Tied, GENERAL_CONTACT
Press Fit Type Interference / Clearance
Press Fit Value User have to enter the press fit value.
Adjust 0.2(YES/NO for Contact Type = TIE and value for other contact types)
Position Tolerance 0.2(Only for Contact Type = TIE)
Tied Slave Node Set Name of the slave node set
Extension Zone 0.01
Contact Face Type Cylindrical/Planar/All
Tolerance Auto or User has to enter the tolerance value.
Surface Interaction Surface Interaction Name (This should be declared above in this file)
Equation Axial = 3,Tangential = 1 (*3,1 Number of equations)
Trim NONE / SLAVE / Slave and Master
Surface To Surface YES or NO (Only for Contact Type = Contact Pair and Contact Tied)
No Rotation YES / NO (Only for Contact Type = TIE)
Contact Side Top / Bottom / None
SurfacetoSuraface_Tie YES / NO (Only for Contact Type = TIE)
Ignore Shell Thickness YES / NO
Smoothing Method NONE / CIRCUMFERENTIAL
Smoothing Apply ON MASTER AND SLAVE / MASTER ONLY / SLAVE ONLY
Smoothing Axis Point1 Enter Axis Point1(eg: x,y,z)
Smoothing Axis Point2 Enter Axis Point2(eg: x,y,z)

Sample Contact definition files

For Equation Alone

Method Body/NodeSet/ElemSet/Group
Equation Name To be specified by the user to refer the equation
Master MasterBody / NodeSet / ElemSet / Group name / GROUP_NUMBER_TEMPLATE
Slave SlaveBody / NodeSet / ElemSet / Group name / GROUP_NUMBER_TEMPLATE
Axial 1 / 2 / 3 / ALL
Tangential 1 / 2 / 3 / ALL
Tolerance (Optional) Auto or User has to enter the tolerance value
Type (Optional) Face(Default)/Edge

Sample Equation definition files