Defining mechanical contact property options

You can define mechanical contact property options to specify tangential behavior (friction and elastic slip), normal behavior (hard, soft, or damped contact and separation), and damping due to friction.

• Specifying frictional behavior for mechanical contact property options
• Specifying pressure-overclosure relationships for mechanical contact property options
• Specifying damping for mechanical contact property options
• Specifying cohesive behavior properties for mechanical contact property options
• Specifying cohesive damage properties for mechanical contact property options
• Specifying fracture criterion properties for crack propagation
• Specifying geometric properties for mechanical contact property options