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Title: New inequality and functional for contact with friction - The implicit standard material approach

Journal Article · · Mechanics of Structures and Machines; (United States)
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  1. Mons, Universite de l'Etat (Belgium) Compiegne, Universite de Technologie (France)

The paper is devoted to the analysis of the 2D or 3D elastic contact problem with Coulomb friction, quasi-static equilibrium, and small displacements. The classical approach is based on two minimum principles, or variational inequalities: the first for unilateral contact and the second for friction. In practical applications involve an algorithm of alternately solving the two problems until convergence is achieved. A coupled approach using one principle or one inequality only is presented. The approach, based on a model of material called implicit standard, allows for extension of the notion of a normality law to dissipative behavior with a nonassociated flow rule, such as surface friction. For numerical time integration of the laws, Moreau's implicit method is considered. Nondifferentiable potentials are regularized by means of the augmented Lagrangian technique. 41 refs.

OSTI ID:
5763774
Journal Information:
Mechanics of Structures and Machines; (United States), Vol. 19; Other Information: MSMAE; ISSN 0890-5452
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English