Contact Interface Time Step
The contact interface time step is calculated in two different ways. First, based on stiffness and second, based on the velocity of the slave nodes.
- Nodal mass
- Interface stiffness
- Element stiffness
- Contact gap
- Penetration amount
- Relative velocity of the penetrating slave node (or line for TYPE11 contact) with respect to the master segment (or line for TYPE11 contact).