Following is a figure of the crimp joint model. The rigid punch is moved downward to fold the grip around the wires. The grip is resting on another fixed rigid surface. The rigid punch is moved 7.607 mm downward in the Y direction through small time steps.
A transient analysis is performed to 3.35E-4 seconds in order to capture the occurrence of all possible contact (surface-to-surface and edge-to-surface) defined by general contact.