Any tips for surface to solid contact in Marc

I'm familiar with Apex but still getting used to Marc. I have midsurfaced and surfaced meshed a part in Apex and will have it contact a solid (similar to a bolt going through a plate). Are there any tips to get more realistic results? I've already seeded the contact area for node to node contact. This will be a nonlinear analysis looking at the failure modes of the interaction.

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0 Kiranraj Shetty over 5 years ago

Dear Cameron Plantz,

The example I created demonstrates shell to solid contact. By default Marc accounts for shell thickness in contact detection. If required you can chose to ignore shell thickness in contact detection ( under jobs > properties > contact control > advanced contact control ).

There is no additional settings required for shell edge contact as well.

Make sure the contact tolerance is good enough to cover the gap between the bodies, select the contact table in loadcase as well as jobs > initial contact as required.

Regards,

Kiran
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0 Kiranraj Shetty over 5 years ago

Dear Cameron Plantz,

The example I created demonstrates shell to solid contact. By default Marc accounts for shell thickness in contact detection. If required you can chose to ignore shell thickness in contact detection ( under jobs > properties > contact control > advanced contact control ).

There is no additional settings required for shell edge contact as well.

Make sure the contact tolerance is good enough to cover the gap between the bodies, select the contact table in loadcase as well as jobs > initial contact as required.

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Kiran
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