Use the General Contact option 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.  

To open the card editor and define all of the relevant keywords, parameters and data lines, click Edit in the Contact Manager.  When you are finished, click return.

 

 

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