You can use Abaqus for CATIA V5 to model contact between two bodies. For example, you can model the assembly of a cylinder head gasket, metal forming simulations, and analyses of rubber seals being compressed between two components. You can also model finite-sliding self-contact of a single deformable body, for example, a complex rubber seal that folds over on itself. Abaqus for CATIA V5 provides two methods for modeling contact interactions—contact pairs and general contact. See Defining Contact Interactions in the Abaqus Interactions Guide for more information.

The following sections discuss contact modeling in Abaqus for CATIA V5:

Contact Pairs: Prevents two bodies from penetrating each other at a common interface.

General Contact: Prevents multiple bodies from penetrating each other at any exterior surface. (Available in Nonlinear Structural Analysis only)