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ABAQUS/Explicit: Advanced Topics
Contact in ABAQUS/Explicit
Copyright 2005 ABAQUS, Inc.
ABAQUS/Explicit: Advanced Topics
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Contact in ABAQUS/Explicit
• The explicit integration method efficiently solves extremely
discontinuous events.
– Contact is an extremely discontinuous form of nonlinearity.
– It is possible to solve complicated, very general, three-dimensional contact
problems with deformable bodies in ABAQUS/Explicit.
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Courtesy of BMW*
* Gholami, T., J. Lescheticky, and R. Paßmann, “Crashworthiness Simulation of Automobiles with ABAQUS/Explicit,”
ABAQUS Users' Conference, Munich, 2003.
Copyright 2005 ABAQUS, Inc.