This chapter discusses features related to contact and interaction modeling. It provides an overview of the following enhancements:

• “Surface fluid cavities and fluid exchanges in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 10.1

• “Feature edge contact enhancements for general contact in Abaqus/Standard,” Section 10.2

• “Improved robustness of small-sliding, surface-to-surface contact involving gaskets,” Section 10.3

• “Enhancements to general contact definitions in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 10.4

• “Surface smoothing enhancements,” Section 10.5

• “Eulerian-Lagrangian thermal contact,” Section 10.6

• “Gap electrical conductance in Abaqus/CAE,” Section 10.7