Permas

Solver Permas
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
Friction User have to enter the friction co-efficient value.
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
CONTACT TYPE NORMAL CALCULATE/NORMAL FIXED/MPC COUPLING
Tolerance Auto or User has to enter the tolerance value
Contact Face Type Cylindrical / Planar / All
Trim NONE / SLAVE / Slave and Master
DISTOL Used to define Distance search tolerance.
OUTTOL Used to define Out of boundary search tolerance.
Gapwidth Used to define Gap Width between tolerance.
Gapwidth Type ABS / ADD
INCLUDE MID NODE Yes/No/Connect to corner nodes using MPC
Add Spring YES or NO
Surface Interaction Surface Interaction Name (This should be declared above in this file)
Support Type Surface to Surface/Node to Node/Surface to Node/Node to Surface)
DOF 123456 (only for MPC Coupling)
Surface Interaction Surface Interaction Name (This should be declared above in this file)

Sample definition files