Thanks for your reply!
Yes you are right about the directional aspect.
I found now that CFN as history output gives you the resultant contact force, which means in this case that vectors showing in opposite directions cancel each other out.
CFN for a surface can be computed manually by...
Hello everyone,
I am having trouble to understand the the whole surface history output CFN: Total Force due to contact pressure.
How does Abaqus compute this value? Looking at the nodal values of CNORMF (Magnitude of contact force) along the surface, I cannot derive the same value by summing...
