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Dear all,

I am modeling pile in soil for earthquake. Do any body have idea how to use the 
following command in abaqus standard *contact controls. For my model with the 
depth transferring tension force should be increased in order to simulate the 
initial stress condition (ie for soil with the depth compression force will 
increase). If addition of these two stress (initial stress (compression +ve) 
and stress due to dynamic analysis (compression or tension -ve) are zero or ?ve 
then there should be gap between pile and soil. When I used this command model 
did not converge. Please guide me how to over come this.

Thanks 

suren



Balendra Surendran,
Graduate Student, 
Department of Civil & Environmental Engineering, 
Washington State University. 

1920, NE TERRE VIEW DR, # I-114 
Pullman, WA 99163, USA. 
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