<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p>We consider a mathematical model which describes the contact between a linearly elastic body and an obstacle, the so-called foundation. The process is static and the contact is bilateral, i.e., there is no loss of contact. The friction is modeled with a nonmotonone law. The purpose of this work is to provide an error estimate for the Galerkin method as well as to present and compare two numerical methods for solving the resulting nonsmooth and nonconvex frictional contact problem. The first approach is based on the nonconvex proximal bundle method, whereas the second one deals with the approximation of a nonconvex problem by a sequence of nonsmooth convex programming problems. Some numerical experiments are realized to compare the two numerical approaches.</p></abstract>

We consider a mathematical model which describes the contact between a linearly elastic body and an obstacle, the so-called foundation. The process is static and the contact is bilateral, i.e., there is no loss of contact. The friction is modeled with a nonmotonone law. The purpose of this work is to provide an error estimate for the Galerkin method as well as to present and compare two numerical methods for solving the resulting nonsmooth and nonconvex frictional contact problem. The first approach is based on the nonconvex proximal bundle method, whereas the second one deals with the approximation of a nonconvex problem by a sequence of nonsmooth convex programming problems. Some numerical experiments are realized to compare the two numerical approaches.

An analytical and numerical approach to a bilateral contact problem with nonmonotone friction

Laboratory of Applied Mathematics and Physics (LAMPS) University of Perpignan, 52 Avenue Paul Alduy, 66860 Perpignan, France

Institute of Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science Jagiellonian University, ul. Łojasiewicza 6, 30-348 Krak´ow, Poland

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

We consider a mathematical model which describes the contact between a linearly elastic body and an obstacle, the so-called foundation. The process is static...

An analytical and numerical approach to a bilateral contact problem with nonmonotone friction

Published Online: Jun 28, 2013

Page range: 263 - 276

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/amcs-2013-0020

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