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Negative Contact Pressure

Posted 10 gen 2011, 16:35 GMT-5 0 Replies

Andrew Prudil Nuclear Materials
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Hi,
I'm trying to implement simple contact between two surfaces using a contact pairs, but I'm having trouble making sense of the results. According to the model, the contact pressure along a single boundary includes both positive and negative values. How can this be? Shouldn't all contact loads be compressive?

A part of the model I'm developing requires contact pressure as an input variable so I need to produce a smooth pressure function.

Any help would be much appreciated.
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