A new strategy for the solution of frictional contact problems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 1053-1068

  Refaat, M H ^a   Meguid, S A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Contact problems; Finite element method; Heuristic algorithms; Nondifferential optimization methods; Variational inequalities

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FOUNDATIONS; HEURISTIC METHODS; ITERATIVE METHODS; MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING; PROBLEM SOLVING; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

PENALTY FUNCTION METHOD; REGULARIZATION METHOD; VARIATIONAL INEQUALITIES;

FRICTION;

EID: 0032202619     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19981130)43:6<1053::AID-NME460>3.0.CO;2-L     Document Type: Article

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