Fixed point strategies for elastostatic frictional contact problems

Fixed point strategies for elastostatic frictional contact problems

Analysis and theoretical comparison between several fixed point strategies and Uzawa algorithms (for classical and augmented Lagrangian) are performed to solve the so called Signorini problem with Coulomb friction without any regularization. Thanks to a formalism coming from convex analysis, some new fixed point strategies are presented and compared to already known methods. The analysis is fir...

Covariant description for frictional contact problems

A strong convergence theorem for solutions of zero point problems and fixed point problems

Zero point problems of the sum of two monotone mappings and fixed point problems of a strictly pseudocontractive mapping are investigated‎. ‎A strong convergence theorem for the common solutions of the problems is established in the framework of Hilbert spaces‎.

Solving Frictional Contact Problems with Multigrid Efficiency

The construction of fast and reliable solvers for contact problems with friction is even nowadays a challenging task. It is well known that contact problems with Coulomb friction have the weak form of a quasi-variational inequality [KO88, HHNL88, NJH80]. For small coefficients of friction, a solution can be obtained by means of a fixed point iteration in the boundary stresses [NJH80]. This fixe...

On Solving Frictional Contact Problems Part Iii: Unilateral Contact

In this paper, we study mixed variational nite element methods for the unilateral problems arising in contact mechanics.The presented discrete spaces can handle the case of non matching meshes in the contact area. We rst state the static problem and then extend it to the frictional contact case, and end with the dynamic frictional problem.