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Contact force on each node

Thread starter julia_page
Start date Feb 5, 2019

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Feb 5, 2019

julia_page

Mechanical

Hello,

In my program I want to get the contact forces of each node. Currently im doing this with a *do loop and fsum for each node. This is slowing down the simulation because i have many contact nodes and a lot of time steps. Is there a way i can get this nodal contact forces without going one by one with a loop?

Thanks