Mohammad: You can add directly contact elements to the structural model. You do not have to do anything special. It may not be working, because the contact elements are not defined correctly. I recommend debugging the contact with a structural only model. If you can get the contact working in a structural model, it should work in an electrostatic-structural model. Note: If you are using Release 10.0, I recommend using the Multi-Field Solver (MFS) rather than ESSOLV. Regards. Dan Shaw ANSYS, Inc. ************************************** -----Original Message----- From: mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org [mailto:mems-talk-bounces@memsnet.org] On Behalf Of Mohammad Shavezipur Sent: Friday, June 29, 2007 10:37 AM To: mems-talk@memsnet.org Subject: [mems-talk] Adding contact to structural-electrostatic solverESSOLV in ANSYS Hi, I am modeling a MEMS capacitor with ANSYS V10 and I need to add contact in my electrostatic-structural model (ESSOLV command). I tried to add the command in structural file but it does not work! Has anybody already solved such problem? If you know how I can add contact in my electrostatic-structural model, please help me!