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A formulation to define the contact surface in the 2D mortar finite element method

  • M. Tur*
  • , F. J. Fuenmayor
  • , Peter Wriggers
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

A new implementation of the mortar method is proposed to solve 2D contact problems. The size of the contact zone can be varied continuously by means of the definition of an intermediate contact surface. It has been proved that this is equivalent to using special shape functions for the interpolation of the contact pressure. A formulation is proposed to find the correct size of the contact zone that minimizes the lack of smoothness of the contact pressure.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAnalysis and Simulation of Contact Problems
EditorsPeter Wriggers, Udo Nackenhost
Pages393-394
Number of pages2
Edition27
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2 Oct 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics
Number27
Volume2006
ISSN (Print)1613-7736

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Computational Theory and Mathematics

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