Insertion and withdrawal force calculation with plastic deformation

I hope that master/solave assignment rules are clear at this point, but it might be good to remind them just in case: Selection master and slave in contact

Or made rigid with RB constraints, as I suggested above.

CalculiX doesn’t have such a switch, but in the log you can see messages like this:

Solving the system of equations using the symmetric pardiso solver.

or:

Solving the system of equations using the unsymmetric pardiso solver.

In fact, it’s recommended to use unsymm=yes in Abaqus also for lower friction coefficients and sometimes even when there’s no friction.

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