Hi,

suppose I have two parts in a static study and there's contact. I need to find out the force that will make one part yield.

In linear static studies you can run a study, get the Von Mises Stress results, and then figure out required force to yield the part by making a simple proportion.

Contact is a non-linearity so can you still use the same approach when there's contact or do you have to foind it out by trial and error ?

Thanks,

Alex

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