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Kinematic contact doesn't work with variable scaling #11601

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lindsayad opened this issue May 29, 2018 · 0 comments
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Kinematic contact doesn't work with variable scaling #11601

lindsayad opened this issue May 29, 2018 · 0 comments
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C: Framework P: normal A defect affecting operation with a low possibility of significantly affects. T: task An enhancement to the software.

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lindsayad commented May 29, 2018

Rationale

Kinematic contact determines the contact force by looking at the displacement residuals (e.g. the sum of the forces). If these are scaled through the variable scaling parameter, then the computed contact force will be wrong.

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This leads to surfaces blowing through each other, e.g. we do not correctly resolve contact:

bad-contact

Moreover, the reported contact pressure is incorrectly scaled as well.

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Folks using a kinematic formulation and variable scaling are getting wrong results.

@permcody permcody added C: Framework T: task An enhancement to the software. P: normal A defect affecting operation with a low possibility of significantly affects. labels May 29, 2018
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