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[chiara modenese <c.modenese@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 21 June 2010 09:32, Bruno Chareyre <bruno.chareyre@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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>> In fact, this will be a problem for me. Capillary law is one specific case
>> and has been computed, if I get it right, as a separate constitutive
>> relationship. However, there are laws where fn can be zero and a stiffness
>> has to be consider since the contact still remains as the contact area is
>> finite.
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> Are you really sure you will get _exactly_ force=0 on an existing contact?
> The only way I think is to write fn=0, otherwise it will always be 0.0000...
> If one day, no luck, one existing contact has zero force, you will just miss
> just one contact in the full packing. Really not a big deal. I would not
> worry about that.

Not sure it will be exactly zero, in fact. However not a big deal as you
suggest. I am not sure anyway this would involve only one contact but
probably not that many... Thanks, chiara

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