*SURFACE INTER ACTION
18.49 *SURFACEINTERACTION: Define surface interaction properties.
This option is used to create a surface interactionproperty definition. Thesurface interaction properties will
govern any contact interactions thatreference this surface interaction.
Products: ABAQUS/Standard ABAQUS/Explicit
Type: Model da ta in ABAQUS/Standard; Model or history data in ABAQUS/Explicit
Level: Model in ABAQUS/Standard, Model or Step in ABAQUS/Explicit
References:
•“Surface properties for ABAQUS/Explicit contact pairs,” Section 29.4.2 of the ABAQUS Analysis
User’s Manual
•“Mechanical contact properties: overview,”Section 30.1.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
•“Contact pressure-overclosurerelationships,” Section 30.1.2 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
•“Contact damping,” Section 30.1.3 of the ABAQUS Ana lysis User’s Manual
•“Frictional behavior,”Section 30.1.5 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
•“User-definedinterfacial constitutive behavior,” Section 30.1.6 ofthe ABAQUS A nalysisUser ’sManual
•“Breakable bonds,” Section 30.1.9 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
•“Thermal contact properties,” Section 30.2.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
•“Electrical contact properties,”Section 30.3.1 of the ABAQUS Analysis User’s Manual
•“Pore fluid contact properties,” Section30.4.1 of the ABAQUS A nalysisUser ’sManual
Required parameter:
NAME
Set this parameter equal to a label that will be used to refer to this surface interactionproperty.
Use this label on the INTERACTION parameter of the *CONTACT PAIR option(for an
ABAQUS/Standard contact analysis or an ABAQUS/Explicit analysis using the contact pair
algorithm) or on the data line of the *CONTACT PROPERTY ASSIGNMENT option (for an
ABAQUS/Explicit analysis using the general contact algorithm) toassign this surface interaction
property to a contact interaction.
Optional parameters:
PAD TH ICKN ESS
This parameter applies only to ABAQUS/Explicit analyses us ing the contact pair algorithm.
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