I use PG Linear mortar for the smoother CPRESS for contact interaction with curved surfaces. I am not sure if the problem with ccx 2.22 or prepomax inp file generation, when I submit the job, it throws an error. This does not happen when I select ccx 2.21 or lower. This is the error I get
*ERROR reading *CONTACT PAIR
no TYPE specified
*ERROR reading *CONTACT PAIR. Card image:
*CONTACTPAIR,INTERACTION=CONTACT,TYPE=PGLINMORTAR
I do use surface to surface contact method for most of my models, but for curved surfaces PGlinmortar is my goto method. I can circumvent this error by using ccx2.21 but I just want to report this error with ccx2.22 and want to know why
Hi thanks for the reply. Do you know why they were removed? Long back I played with all the 5 methods to get a smoother cpress distribution and found the PG one much better than the lin mortar or regular mortar while surface to surface and node to surface were nowhere near to any of the mortar contact methods. So that is why I was wondering what happened to it in the newest version. I now have to check the regular mortar from 2.22 with the pg linear mortar in lower versions if they are comparable and acceptable enough.
maybe, PrePoMax need to adapt default included solver versions to suppress this error. User still can access the feature by keyword editor and old CalculiX versions.
I was not aware that some contact models were removed. Since only the latest CalculiX version is supported by PrePoMax, I will follow its features and remove the deprecated contact models.