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  1. Pennnnnny

    Definition of total contact area (CAREA) in ABAQUS

    Dear all, Dose anyone know the definition of CAREA in Abaqus. I used the CAREA in the output and successfully got the total contact area between two contact surfaces, but I am very confused about how the contact area is calculated. After reading through the Abaqus documentation, I still did not...
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    Problems about the thickness of shell element

    Hello everyone, I have a problem in defining the thickness of the shell element when I am using the axisymmetric shell elements (SAX1) to do my simulations. When I specified the thickness value for the shell element to be 0.4 and 1.2, respectively, my model was able to complete; however, when I...
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    Question on defining axisymmetric shell element?

    Dear all, I am trying to create the axisymmetric shell element, SAX1, but i have no idea how to do it. The problem is that it is impossible to directly assign a shell, homogeneous section to an axisymmetric, shell part, which is actually 2-dimensional. I noticed that I was able to assign the...

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