Hello!

I want to use Abaqus/Explicit to define a cohesive behavior for the contact between a rebar and concrete. To do this, I have defined a general contact with a global property assignment that includes only normal and tangential behavior. To assign the cohesive behavior, I have defined specific surface pairs in "individual property assignments".

Side note:

Since the corresponding tangential behavior is not the same for all surfaces in my model, I chose "included surface pairs: selected surface pairs" in my general contact definition. For the remaining surfaces that do not exhibit cohesive behavior and show a different tangential behavior, I have defined a surface-to-surface contact. 

Unfortunately, when I submit the job, I get the following warning message:

OP=NEW on *CONTACT is ignored when the general contact definition is specified as model data.

Can anyone tell me what I can do so that the cohesive behavior is not ignored in my model?

Thank you in advance!