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Initial conditions, Type=contact

*Initial conditions, Type=contact
<interaction name>, <value of void ratio>, <values of the intergranular strain (up to six values)>
This command is used to initialize state variables of a constitutive contact model, where <interaction name> is the name of the interaction for which the initial variables is defined. <value of void ratio> is the value of the initial void ratio assigned to this interaction. Currently, only the Hypoplastic constitutive model requires a definition of the initial state.