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Hi, everyone! I am trying to simulate the contact between tire and soil in COMSOL, but I am getting too many problems of convergence. The errors are always like:

Failed to find a solution for the initial parameter. Maximum number of dogleg iterations reached. There was an error message from the linear solver. The relative error (0.18) is greater than the relative tolerance. Returned solution is not converged. Not all parameter steps returned.

The geometry is relatively simple, because it was simplified to 2D. However, some of the results that we could get an answer without the convergence error, don't represent what occurs in real life or at least a reasonable result. I am afraid that the boundary conditions may not be set properly. I am new to the software and still getting the hang of it. My modelation is as follows:

Initially, the geometry is basically a circle (tire/wheel) on top of a rectangle (soil). I used a contact pair between the tire and soil, used Solid Mechanics as my physics module, fixed constraint for the soil, added mass, gravity, assumed a hyperelastic Material, Soil Plasticity for the soil and also Spring Foundation. In the contact pair, I avoided adding friction to simplify the problem and also avoided to add Prescribed Displacement so that the displacement would be generated by the weight of the tire to the soil. Any idea why these errors are occurring? Thank you for your attention Matheus S.