Variational and numerical analysis of a quasistatic viscoelastic contact problem with normal compliance and friction

2013 ◽  
Vol 93 (9) ◽  
pp. 1948-1962 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wei Li ◽  
Xue-song Li ◽  
Nan-jing Huang
2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yahyeh Souleiman ◽  
Mikael Barboteu

Abstract This paper represents a continuation of [15] and [18]. Here, we consider the numerical analysis of a non trivial frictional contact problen in a form of a system of evolution nonlinear partial differential equations. The model describes the equilibrium of a viscoelastic body in sliding contact with a moving foundation. The contact is modeled with a multivalued normal compliance condition with memory term restricted by a unilateral constraint, and is associated to a sliding version of Coulomb's law of dry friction. After a description of the model and some assumptions, we derive a variational formulation of the problem, which consists of a system coupling a variational inequality for the displacement field and a nonlinear equation for the stress field. Then, we introduce a fully discrete scheme for the numerical approximation of the sliding contact problem. Under certain solution regularity assumptions, we derive an optimal order error estimate and we provide numerical validation of this result by considering some numerical simulations in the study of a two-dimensional problem.


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