FEM ConstraintContact

Description
Creates a FEM constraint for contact between 2 surfaces.

How to use

 * 1) Click on [[Image:FEM ConstraintContact.png|32px]] or choose → Mechanical Constraints →   from the top menu.
 * 2) Select the master face.
 * 3) Select the slave face.
 * 4) Enter a contact stiffness.
 * 5) Enter a friction coefficient.

Limitations

 * 1) The contact constraint can only be applied to two faces.

CalculiX

 * 1) The contact stiffness should be 10 times the young's modulus of the material for hard contact. The higher the value for contact stiffness, the harder the contact between surfaces.
 * 2) The slave face is the face which penetrates into the master face, and therefore experiences more deformation.
 * 3) The *CONTACT PAIR card is used for modeling contact in CalculiX. The constraint uses Face-to-Face penalty contact and the contact formulation is explained in detail at http://web.mit.edu/calculix_v2.7/CalculiX/ccx_2.7/doc/ccx/node112.html