Why is my solution not converging?

[Oakjelly21]

I am compressing a hyper elastic material using a panel. I am using a 2D general static simulation, and panel is a analytic wire. I have attached my inp file. Please take a look at it and see if there are any glaring issues.

https://files.engineering.com/getfi...97-a29f-46d5-86c4-d6a73c138a08&file=Job-1.inp

Edit: I used an unsymmetric solver and the problem, resolved itself.

 

[FEA way]

Edit: I used an unsymmetric solver and the problem, resolved itself.

Thanks for sharing your solution. It is in fact recommended to use an unsymmetric solver for most analyses with contact, especially the ones failing to converge and particularly when there's friction.