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surface based cohesive

Submitted by armanamd on

Dear All,

I defined cohesive surface between 2 surface in my model which is 3D but I faced an error which is mentioned below:

In the contact pair, the slave surface contains quadratic triangular facets. This is not allowed for the node-to-surface approach using direct enforcement of the contact constraints. Please  use the surface-to-surface approach and/or penalty enforcement method.

cohesive surface can just be defined for node to surface I don't know where the problem is in my simulation in ABaqus. I am wondering if anyone can give me some suggestions about it.

Thank you,