Hello,
The most important point is that, in your case, as per your question, the two parts are initially disconnected and they need to move towards each other and make contact. This type of analysis will always converge if you apply a boundary condition on the rigid body reference point. But...
Hello,
For the same model features, should the conditions support the usage (if we don’t have a complex load path / nonlinear load path / any non-linearity), a static linear perturbation step is faster than a general static step (and a static linear perturbation should be used in such cases)...
Even within the same part, if you can create different sets (can be geometry based or elements based), then you can assign different material definitions / section definition to the different sets.
BR,
Vishakh.
The usage of python in ABAQUS can be for both pre - processing and post - processing (I mean comple pre - processing and complete post - processing).
You can model the geometry, create the material, BC's, mesh etc etc and anything and everything using Python in ABAQUS.
Example 1: The command...
