Contact module-related maintenance

recuero commented 1 year ago

Reason

Conform to best practices, avoid misuse of capabilities.

[ ] Use displacements instead of individual components in contact objects
[ ] Default to use_displaced_mesh = true for mortar objects applying contact forces (Easy mistake to make as a user )
[ ] Route more mortar options through the action, e.g. minimum_projection_angle.
[ ] Add UO-based design to dynamic mortar contact constraints.
[ ] Replace our DofObject map keys by Node map keys. This should reduce the number of static_cast.
[ ] Do wear computations in user objects instead of mortar auxiliary kernels (optional)

Better code, better user experience.

recuero commented 1 year ago

@lindsayad I believe we don't have (or I don't remember) an error check for users trying to employ mortar with 1D meshes?

lindsayad commented 1 year ago

I don't recall one

recuero commented 1 year ago

We could add it in the base constructor querying the mesh. Might avoid other more cumbersome errors downstream.