Systematic approach to

tune tiebreak contact

Failure option 1-11
Simple Tiebreak Failure (Option 3) : Normal and Shear Stress
Cohesive kind of failure model (Option11) : Discrete Crack Model with power law
and B-K damage models
Tie break Damage Parameter
NFLS : Normal failure stress
SFLS : Shear failure stress
PARAM : it is the exponent in the damage model
ERATEN : Normal energy release rate
ERATES : Shear energy release rate
CT2CN : The ratio of the tangential stiffness to the normal stiffness

Contact Stabilization parameters

CN : Normal stiffness
VDC : Viscous damping coefficient, In order to avoid undesirable oscillation in contact