Boundary conditions of a deformable strip contact

General Questions
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  1. You can keep the rigid body constraint but boundary conditions should be applied to its reference node, not to the nodes of the rigid part.
  2. Don’t use concentrated force this way: Don't apply concentrated force load to surfaces
  3. You don’t have contact in this model, only surface interaction (that could be used for contact pair definition) and tie constraint.
  4. If you want to use both tie and contact, make a partition on that edge so one segment will have tie constraint and the other will have contact (to avoid overconstraint).
  5. You can’t model sticky contact in CalculiX, there’s no cohesive behavior. So once the contact is established, it will be able to separate. Just saying.
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