Mortar contact hard

Feature Requests
1

Mortar Contact hard:

“Hard pressure-overclosure behavior is internally reduced to linear pressure-
overclosure behavior with the default constants. In case of mortar contact true
hard behavior can be simulated by omiting the *SURFACE BEHAVIOR card
within the *SURFACE INTERACTION card.”

If I’m not wrong this is not possible without custom cards in Prepomax right now. *SURFACE BEHAVIOR and *SURFACE INTERACTION are always created together.

2

It should be sufficient to allow the creation of Surface interactions without Surface behavior.

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In Abaqus, you can create empty Surface interaction / Contact property:

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This results in:

*Surface Interaction, name=IntProp-1
1.,