Thank you for the various responses, I greatly appreciate your help. I will play around with the normal behavior, thanks for the suggestion.
rstupplebeen--When you say I should be using rigid surfaces, is that different than how I have the model defined currently? I applied a rigid body...
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I am modeling a cylinder undergoing a four point bend test in abaqus. In the model there are 2 contact interactions defined between the test fixture and the cylinder undergoing bending. These contact surfaces (of the fixture and cylinder) both are smooth cylindrical shapes. In the...
