SLINESTABOPTION

Description Type Default

Surface contact solution stabilization option. Specifies the type of solution stabilization to be used when a model contains slide line or surface contact elements and the nonlinear solution diverges. Options are only active for stabilization iterations defined by NITERSUPDATE. There are four options:

  • 0 - Stabilization disabled.
  • 1 - Contact status is frozen.
  • 2 - Contact open gap stiffness (SLINEOPENKSFACT) is increased by 1.0E+7.
  • 3 - Contact unload tolerance (SLINEUNLOADTOL) is increased by 1.0E+7.
  • 4 - Options 1 - 3 are used simultaneously.

See SLINEUNLOADTOL, SLINEOPENKSFACT, and NITRERSUPDATE in this section.

0 ≤ Integer ≤ 4

0