Contact and glue conditions

The software creates a number of different commands that you can use to model:

• Regions in your model where contact occurs between surfaces.

• Problems where separate surfaces, or an edge and a surface, need to be tied or glued together to prevent any relative motion between them.

The commands available for defining contact and glue conditions depend on your specified solver.

Solver	Contact condition commands	Glue condition commands
Simcenter Nastran	Surface-to-Surface ContactEdge-to-Edge ContactAdvanced Axisymmetric Nonlinear Contact	Surface-to-Surface GluingEdge- to-Surface GluingEdge- to-Edge Gluing
Simcenter Samcef	Surface-to-Surface Contact Edge-to-Surface Contact Flexible-to-Rigid Contact	Surface-to-Surface Gluing Solid-To-Edge Gluing Edge-To-Surface Gluing Edge-To-Edge Gluing Nodes-To-Surface Gluing
Abaqus	Bolt Contact with ClearanceContact with ClearanceElement RemovalSurface-to-Surface ContactSurface to Surface Thermal Conductance	Tie Surface
ANSYS	Structural Contact (including node-to-surface, node-to-line, line-to-surface, and line-to-line contact)Thermal Contact
LS-DYNA	Surface-to-Surface Contact
MSC Nastran	General Contact/Glue	General Contact/Glue and set the Glue option in the Local Geometric Contact Parameters modeling object dialog box

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