Description: The algorithm to automatically assign contact penalty stiffness now accounts for stiffening of underlying gasket elements upon compression if thickness-direction gasket material behavior is specified directly. This change will typically result in better resolution of contact conditions for cases in which the penalty or augmented Lagrange methods are used to enforce contact constraints at interfaces involving gaskets. If you have existing models that employ scale factors to adjust the penalty stiffness at such interfaces, these scale factors are likely no longer needed and may degrade convergence behavior; you should try removing these scale factors in favor of the new stiffness algorithm.