10.6 User-defined tracking thickness for user subroutine VUINTER

Product: Abaqus/Explicit  

Benefits: You can improve performance of Abaqus/Explicit models that involve user subroutine VUINTER.

Description: You can now limit the contact search distance for contact pairs referring to user subroutine VUINTER to improve analysis efficiency. By default (and previously in all cases), a candidate point of interaction on the master surface is determined for each slave node for contact pairs associated with VUINTER, including slave nodes far removed from the master surface. Detailed contact searches (which often require significant computation time) can now be avoided for slave nodes a safe distance away from the master surface (in the current configuration) if a user-defined “tracking thickness” is specified.

References:

Abaqus Analysis User's Guide

Abaqus Keywords Reference Guide

Abaqus User Subroutines Reference Guide