*Tie and surfaces?

Check these threads:

Tie constraint is really versatile and can be used for beam-solid, beam-shell or solid-shell connections as well. Here’s an example:

As you can see, the deflection is well represented but the stresses become distorted. The same happens in Abaqus and that’s why Abaqus offers shell-to-solid coupling functionality which eliminates this issue. Unfortunately, CalculiX doesn’t have such a constraint implemented.

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