Cohesion in Zero Length Contact elemt

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shivanirani11
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Cohesion in Zero Length Contact elemt

Post by shivanirani11 »

This is the command used for defining the inteface in 3D modelling

element zeroLengthContact3D $eleTag $sNode $mNode $Kn $Kt $mu $c $dir

Can you please tell me the use of c (cohesion) here and how to define its value.
shivanirani11
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Re: Cohesion in Zero Length Contact elemt

Post by shivanirani11 »

Please do reply
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