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Self contact

Chethan Y C

Hi,

How to give self contact in Optistruct?

Regards,

Chethan

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Altair Forum User

HI,

There are two ways to activate Self-Contact:

Master and slave Set Identification numbers can point to the same set.
Master Set Identification number can be blank.

Chethan Y C

Thanks

Chethan Y C

Hi,

For FINITE SLIDING and CONSLI, self contact will work? I am using 2017.2 version and it is throwing an error saying it is not possible for the FINITE and CONSLI...

I can't use SMALL sliding in my model since the relative displacement is large... any suggestions?

Regards,

Chethan

Altair Forum User

Hi,

Can you share the error message, please?

Chethan Y C

*** ERROR # 4784 ***
Finite sliding is not supported for self CONTACT 14 (SSID=MSID).

*** Run terminated because of error(s) in the input data.

Solver FAILED

optistruct:: Solver run finished.

Altair Forum User

Hi,

Can you try with CONSLI?

Chethan Y C

*** ERROR # 5911 ***
Self contact is not supported for surface to surface
continuous sliding CONTACT 14.

*** Run terminated because of error(s) in the input data.

Rahul Rajan_21763

Self contact for S2S is supported from OptiStruct 2017.2.2 version.PFA screenshot from release notes. Latest version for OptiStruct is 2018 and latest patch 2018.0.1

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