The following figure shows the crimp joint model. As the rigid punch moves downward, it folds the grip around the wires. The grip rests on another fixed rigid surface (Rigid Base in the figure). The rigid punch is moved 7.607 mm downward in the Y direction through small time steps.

Figure 42.1: 3-D Crimp Joint Model

This problem is analysed with a transient analysis run for 3.35E-4 seconds to capture the occurrence of all possible contact (surface-to-surface and edge-to-surface) defined by general contact.