For a contact on SimScale, you always have a master and a slave assignment. During the calculation, the nodes of the slave surfaces are restricted in their movement by the deformation of the master surface. There have been a number of questions and comments on FEA Public Projects regarding assignin…

Nice post @AnnaFless ! Taking it further, I made a small animation showing how to assign master and slave surfaces. The animation shows the assignment in case of physical contacts but same procedure can be followed for the other available contact types. Best Regards, Ahmed

regarding master and slave entities.should master have 0 degrees of freedom ?

Hi @Omer , if you are referring to the case where one contact part is completely rigid - then yes, the master should be chosen to be on the rigid part. Best, Richard