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How does Ansys calculate contact pressures

Thread starter aminjamali
Start date Dec 27, 2008

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Dec 27, 2008

aminjamali

Civil/Environmental

I wonder how does Ansys calculate "contact pressures"? I can't find a relationship between nodal forces and element (or nodal) pressures in my simple problem, so I thought it might be a matrix calculation perhaps? Any clue is appreciated.

tnanks a lot!