Contact diagnostics in an Abaqus/Standard analysis

Diagnostics of an Abaqus/Standard analysis can be used to:

  • check the initial contact conditions in a model; and

  • track contact statuses over the course of the analysis.

Diagnostic information is available in several locations:

  • The output database

  • The job diagnostics tool in the Visualization module of Abaqus/CAE

  • The data (.dat) file

  • The message (.msg) file

The following topics are discussed:

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About general contact in Abaqus/Standard
About contact pairs in Abaqus/Standard
Contact formulations in Abaqus/Standard
In Other Guides
Output to the Data and Results Files
*CONTACT PRINT
*PREPRINT
*PRINT
Viewing diagnostic output

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