The General Contact option allows you to define the *CONTACT, *CONTACT INCLUSIONS, *CONTACT EXCLUSIONS and *CONTACT PROPERTY ASSIGNMENT. The keywords *SURFACE PROPERTY ASSIGNMENT, *CONTACT FORMULATION, *CONTACT CONTROLS ASSIGNMENT and *SURFACE PROPERTY CONTACT CLEARANCE ASSIGNMENT cards are available for Explicit template only.  

Click the Edit button in the Contact Manager to go into the card editor to define all relevant keywords, parameters and data lines.  When you are finished, click return and the Contact Manager window will once again be displayed.

 

 

See Also:

Contact Pair

Pre-Tension Section

Tie

Auto Contact

Element Based Surface

Node Based Surface

Surface Combine or Crop

Cutting Surface

Analytical Rigid Surface

Surface Interaction

Abaqus Contact Manager