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*GASKET CONTACT AREA
Specify a gasket contact area or contact width for average pressure output.

This option is used to define contact area or contact width versus closure curves to output an average pressure through variable CS11. It can be used only with gasket link and three-dimensional line gasket elements that have their thickness-direction behavior defined in terms of force or force per unit length.

Products: Abaqus/Standard  Abaqus/CAE  

Type: Model data

Level: Model  

Abaqus/CAE: Property module

Reference:

Optional parameter:

DEPENDENCIES

Set this parameter equal to the number of field variable dependencies included in the definition of the data, in addition to temperature. If this parameter is omitted, it is assumed that the data depend only on temperature. See “Specifying field variable dependence” in “Material data definition,” Section 21.1.2 of the Abaqus Analysis User's Guide, for more information.

Data lines to define a contact area for average pressure output: 

First line:

  1. Contact area or width. (This value cannot be negative.)

  2. Closure. (This value cannot be negative.)

  3. Temperature, .

  4. First field variable.

  5. Etc., up to five field variables.

Subsequent lines (only needed if the DEPENDENCIES parameter has a value greater than five):

  1. Sixth field variable.

  2. Etc., up to eight field variables per line.

Repeat this set of data lines as often as necessary to define the dependence of the contact area or width versus closure curves on temperature and field variables.