Hello everyone:

1. I have built a FEM model 2D plane strain using ABAQUS/Standard (CPE4R) elements,

2. I am modeling the contact between a cylinder and a plate in 2D.

3. The Cylinder material is given is ELASTIC ISOTROPIC material with no plasticit E=310 GPa

4. The plate is with a Ramberg-Osgood plasticity with a Young's modulus E=210 GPa.

5. The mesh at the the contact point is VERY refined element characteristic length is about 1 micron. (My model units
are (mm,N,sec)).

6. I validate my model with hertz contact theory and it works well.

7. I try to validate with mindlin theory (Pressure and shear), when I plot the pressure profile at the contact zone I get a
well behaved curve. However, the Shear at the contact zone is NOT well behaved, it shows alot of fluctuations and
noisy response.

8. I tried to modify the mesh size at the contact zone (increased in fact) but the response is still the same.

P.S. if I remove PLASTICITY from the model, it works fine both in NORMAL pressure and IN SHEAR.

Question:

1. How can this be corrected ?

2. Is there a particular plastic model that I should used (my material is a metal) ?

3. can CONTACT CONTROLS be used to remedy this? if yes, how ?