You should review the contact pair candidates in the contact pair
candidates table to ensure the surfaces involved are accurate and sufficient
for your modeling needs.
Click on each contact pair name with the Highlight in
viewport option toggled on to see the locations of each potential
surface interaction or tie. If necessary you can add, remove, or modify the
contact pair candidates.
Add a row to the table for any unidentified contact pairs you would
like to include in your model:
Click mouse button 3 anywhere in the contact pair candidates
table, and select Add from the menu that appears.
You can also click the
button above the contact pair candidates table.
Select a main surface in the viewport, and click
OK in the prompt area.
Select a secondary surface in the viewport, and click
OK.
Abaqus/CAE adds a contact pair candidate row to the contact pair candidates
table based on the surfaces you selected. Default values are provided
for each column in the row.
Remove any contact pair candidates that are not necessary for your
modeling purposes. Click mouse button 3 anywhere on the row representing the
contact pair candidate you want to remove, and select
Delete from the menu that appears. You can also click the
row you want to remove and then click the
button above the contact pair candidates table.
If multiple contact pairs will use identical parameters in their
contact interaction or tie constraint definition, you can combine them into a
single contact pair:
In the contact pair candidates table, highlight the rows
representing the contact pairs you want to combine (see
Selecting multiple items from lists and tables,
for instructions on selecting multiple rows in a table).
Click mouse button 3 on any highlighted cell, and select
Merge from the menu that appears. You can also click the
button above the contact pair candidates table.
Abaqus/CAE replaces the selected contact pairs with a single contact pair. The
selected main surfaces are merged into a single surface, and the
selected secondary surfaces are merged into a single surface. The merged
contact pair uses the parameters from the selected contact pair that
appeared highest in the contact pair candidates table.