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About some of your questions (I didn't followed the related tutorial) 2) In case of doubt you can list the contact surface (Utilities->List->Surfaces...) It will show its Material index (the index from 1 in the list of current GiD materials) 3) the contact surface/contact volume are special pseudo-...

Dear In the example of JOINT SHEAR TEST in code_bright tutorial 2021 I have follow problems 1) In pp.IX.9, the minimum porosity is 2.7 in the table 4, Is it a typo? 2) In contact surface setting. how to check whether a material of contact surface has been set successful? because Draw material cannot...

Dear user, The material index is just the order of the material in the list that appears in the materials window. For example, ResidualSoil is IMATEQ=1, Ring1 is IMATEQ=2, etc... Best wishes, Alfonso Thanks for your reply. The material index can be find in a file with file extension .mat, this file...

Dear In user's guide, in the excavation process, the P2 is properties which is material index(IMATEQ). but how to know the material index ? In tutorial of sequential excavation, in the example the IMATEQ of shotcrete 10 is given 12, which is explain as the material is the same as shortcrete1 (12th m...