PamCrash,
Thank you sincerely for answering my question. The displacement was not enough to contact the other element. I have increased the thermal strain and now the elements contact each other properly. Thank you again for your help; the matter has been resolved.
-Andrew
I am a beginner in ABAQUS, and I am trying to model the deformed shape an element will take as it displaces into another element due to thermal strain.
I can successfully model the thermal strain, but one element passes through the other (screenshot attached) instead of contacting. I have set...