Using General Contact in Abaqus CAE

Contact is essentially the definition of parts interacting with one another and/or itself. Abaqus/Standard & Abaqus/Explicit both use General contact and/or Contact pairs for defining contact. Both are forms of interactions in Abaqus/CAE. Abaqus General Contact was not always available in both Standard and Explicit solvers. They were initially available in Abaqus/Explicit then introduced to Abaqus/Standard from release in November 2008. It is a very quick and easy way of creating interactions between components but it is not as dirty as you think! To read the full blog post, visit: