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Examples for Linear Gaps modelling.

ron.kunz
Dear all,
I would like to study some examples with linear gap elements. We don`t have SOL400 available and to have a work around for i.e. objects touching or near eachother.
Could you provide wtih some examples or give location of study material? Thanks.
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    Regarding memory and disk usage, linear contact does't require a lot more H/W resources than a standard linear analysis. In other words, if you can run a linear analysis with 860000 elements and 740000 nodes on your desktop, you can probably run with linear contact too. The big difference isn't RAM or disk usage, it's the number solves required it iterate to a converged solution. With contact you might have 10, 20 or 100 passes thru the solver, so the job will run a lot longer.
    This is where linear contact has a significant advantage over linear gaps. Adding 20,000 linear gaps to your model would require significant scratch space.
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    Regarding memory and disk usage, linear contact does't require a lot more H/W resources than a standard linear analysis. In other words, if you can run a linear analysis with 860000 elements and 740000 nodes on your desktop, you can probably run with linear contact too. The big difference isn't RAM or disk usage, it's the number solves required it iterate to a converged solution. With contact you might have 10, 20 or 100 passes thru the solver, so the job will run a lot longer.
    This is where linear contact has a significant advantage over linear gaps. Adding 20,000 linear gaps to your model would require significant scratch space.
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