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No rating yet Subject: Re: Contact173 Penetration Plot Has No Neg Values Author: Al Hancq Date: 1999-01-13 16:55:00Steve:
For printing, gaps and penetration can be output together but for plotting, they are separate. To plot gaps use "plnsol,gap", for penetration use "plnsol,pene". hope this clarifies.
al hancq.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Ferguson, Steven R. [SMTP:Steven.R.Ferguson@a...] > Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 1999 4:38 PM > To: xansys@o... > Subject: [xansys] Contact173 Penetration Plot Has No Neg Values
> From: "Ferguson, Steven R."
> The ANSYS 5.5 manual says, that for Contact 173 element, penetration > will be plotted as a positive number and gaps will be plotted as > negative numbers. However, in several models I and others have done > ,where gaps are known to exist, a penetration plot shows no negative > numbers.
> Is this just an error in the ANSYS manual, or is it a feature that was > intended to be placed in ANSYS, but was not?