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A mortar-finite element formulation for frictional contact problems

T. W. McDevitt, T. A. Laursen
Journal:International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
Volume: 48, Number: 10, page: 1525-1547, August 2000

    Abstract    
In this paper a finite element formulation is developed for the solution of frictional contact problems. The novelty of the proposed formulation involves discretizing the contact interface with mortar elements, originally proposed for domain decomposition problems. The mortar element method provides a linear transformation of the displacement field for each boundary of the contacting continua to an intermediate mortar surface. On the mortar surface, contact kinematics are easily evaluated on a single discretized space. The procedure provides variationally consistent contact pressures and assures the contact surface integrals can be evaluated exactly.
Keyword: friction; contact; finite elements; mortar elements
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