A ContactArea object specifies a suboption of gasket thickness behavior when variableUnits=FORCE on the GasketThicknessBehavior object. The ContactArea object defines the contact area or contact width versus closure curves to output an average pressure through variable CS11.
import material mdb.models[name].materials[name].gasketThicknessBehavior.contactArea import odbMaterial session.odbs[name].materials[name].gasketThicknessBehavior.contactArea
This method creates a ContactArea object.
mdb.models[name].materials[name].gasketThicknessBehavior.ContactArea session.odbs[name].materials[name].gasketThicknessBehavior.ContactArea
Required argument
A sequence of sequences of Floats specifying the items described below.
Optional arguments
A Boolean specifying whether contact area data depend on temperature. The default value is OFF.
An Int specifying the number of field variable dependencies included in the definition of the contact area data, in addition to temperature. The default value is 0.
Table data
Contact area or width; this value must be positive.
Closure; this value must be positive.
Temperature, if the data depend on temperature.
Value of the first field variable, if the data depend on field variables.
Value of the second field variable.
Etc.
Return value
A ContactArea object.
Exceptions
This method modifies the ContactArea object.
Required arguments
Optional arguments
The optional arguments to setValues are the same as the arguments to the ContactArea method.
Return value
Exceptions
The ContactArea object has members with the same names and descriptions as the arguments to the ContactArea method.