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gaps between contact pairs - explicit

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Wreck

Wreck

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Aug 10, 2004
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I have a pinned connection that I want to model. In reality, there is a washer but I don't want to model that. I want the contact surfaces to maintain a gap of say 0.05". The components are solid sections meshed with tets and I element based surfaces.

Thank you for your help
 
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