我对金属板料的塑性成形过程进行模拟,整个模型是通过UG绘图软件导入的,所以金属板本身已经具有厚度,金属板之前曾用过实体单元C3D8R,也用过实体壳单元SC8R,在使用这两种单元时,我都是直接指定金属板的厚度。现在我想用壳单元S4R对金属板进行模拟,给厚度的方式如图,可是在data check的时候却出现了一个如下所示的警告:
The thicness used in the general contact algorithm for elements in element set WarnElemGContThickReduce has been reduced. See the status file for further details.
***WARNING: In step 1, some facet thicknesses for general contact were reduced
from the parent element or specified values due to a large
thickness compared to facet dimensions. The most significant
thickness scaling factor was 0.41036 for a facet on parent element
6061 of instance STANDARD-9-1. An element set named
"WarnElemGContThickReduce" has been created for use in
ABAQUS/Viewer to locate the regions of reduced thickness.