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May 19, 2024 at 10:00 am
peteroznewman
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Don't apply line contact to solid elements.  Stress is force/area.  A line has zero area, therefore the stress is infinity.

Create a two cylinder bodies to make frictional contact with the RCC beam. Use a small element size under the point of contact. This will allow many element faces on the RCC to make contact with the cylinder and create a finite area so the force applied by the cylinder will create a finite stress.