What should be the appropriate thickness of cohesive zone element??

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Md. Washim Akram

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Sanan H Khan

cohesive surface and cohesive elements are two different methodologies. although they look very similar in execution. for element you need to define the thickness however the thickness should be negligible ( aproxx zero) however for surfaces no thickness is needed as the contact contrains are applied at the contact point only.

Chitaranjan Pany

zero-thickness interface model could be a good approximation.