creating contact surfaces ansys 14.5

[crisbeta90]

Good morning.

at the university they assigned me this short project to carry out,
http://imageshack.com/i/09tdfij
http://imageshack.com/i/1fb1dpjon the second page says:
in particular the two surfaces that originate from the root of the welding cord and which are included between the lower and upper plate are treated as contact surfaces, neglecting the effects due to friction (μ = 0).

My problem is how to create contact surfaces, since prof. did not explain how to do it. Can you please help me?
the element I use for modeling is solid 8 knots 182

 

[Francescosp]

hi, assuming that I am also clashing with this kind of problems I was told to use the elements "target" and "account" directly from the "contact manager " which is quite intuitive from the point of view of the management of surface-surface contacts.