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