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Analysis of a time discretization for an implicit variational inequality modelling dynamic contact problems with friction

✍ Scribed by Jean-Marc Ricaud; Elaine Pratt


Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2001
Tongue
English
Weight
167 KB
Volume
24
Category
Article
ISSN
0170-4214

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Abstract

Some dynamic contact problems with friction can be formulated as an implicit variational inequality. A time discretization of such an inequality is given here, thus giving rise to a so‐called incremental solution. The convergence of the incremental solution is established, and then the limit is shown to be the unique solution of the variational inequality. This paper contains therefore not only some new results concerning the numerical aspect of some models of contact and friction but also a constructive existence result. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.