Surface-to-Surface Contact dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)

Type
Type	Specifies the face pairing method: Automatic Pairing or Manual.
Name
Name	Sets the name of the contact constraint that appears in the Simulation Navigator under the Simulation Objects Container node.
Description	Sets the description.
Destination Folder
Simulation Objects Container	Lets you specify the folder in the Simulation Navigator in which the contact constraint will be stored. The list includes the root container and existing folders that you created using the New Folder command.
Automatic Face Pair Creation
Appears when Type is set to Automatic Pairing.
Face Pairs	Lets you select the faces to pair. For more information, see Create Automatic Face Pairs dialog box
Source Region (slave)
Appears when Type is set to Manual.
Source Region	Lets you select the Source Region of the contact. For more details on the Samcef Regions, see Region dialog box (Simcenter Samcef).
Target Region (master)
Appears when Type is set to Manual.
Target Region	Lets you select a Target Region of the contact. For more details on the Samcef Regions, see Region dialog box (Simcenter Samcef).
Swap Regions
Appears when Type is set to Manual.
Swap Regions	Lets you swap defined regions.
Specific Parameters
Unidirectional/Bidirectional	By default, the contact is Unidirectional: nodes of the Source Region will define contact conditions with the element faces of the Target Region.If you select Bidirectional, you also allow that nodes of the Target Region will define contact conditions with the element faces of the Source Region.
General Parameters
Parameters	Lets you define the contact general parameters.For more details, see Contact Parameters dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)
Output Requests
Select Reference Position for the Moment	Lets you define the reference position to compute the moment in the results.
Reference Position for the Moment	Appears when the Select Reference Position for the Moment check box is selected.Defines the reference position for the moment in the model.
Contact Results	Lets you define contact specific results.For more information, see the structural MACRO element in the Simcenter Samcef solver documentation.
Boundary Condition Generation
Associate to Automatic Pair Recipe	Specifies whether automatically generated pairs are associated with the automatic pair recipe. The automatic pair recipe is the set of parameters in the Create Automatic Face Pairs dialog box that determines how to compute and group face pairs. When you select this check box, the generated contact pairs appear in the Simulation Navigator with the prefix Auto. If you update the master part, the software recalculates the face pairs and updates the boundary condition.When you clear this check box, the generated contact pairs are not associated with the face pair recipe. If the master model changes, the contact pairs are not updated. These pairs behave the same as manually created pairs.
Ancillary Display
For more details, see Ancillary Display dialog box (Simcenter Samcef)

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Surface-to-Surface Contact dialog box (Simcenter Samcef), Simcenter 3D 2021.1 Series

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