Is there a text introduction about ZeroLengthImplemenxContact Element?

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Re: Is there a text introduction about ZeroLengthImplemenxContact Element?

Post by 2443631711@qq.com » Wed Mar 22, 2023 9:38 am

but the zerolength element can not connect two node who have diffenerent Dofs(3dof and 2dof) :shock:
quadup element(3dof) and elasticbeamcolumn element (2dof)
what should i do....
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Re: Is there a text introduction about ZeroLengthImplemenxContact Element?

Post by STKO Team » Tue Mar 28, 2023 8:02 am

In STKO we automatically duplicate one of the nodes to create an auxiliary node with the correct DOFs. Then we link the two duplicated nodes in the common DOFs with an EqualDOF
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