Numerical studies of a hemivariational inequality for a viscoelastic contact problem with damage

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2020.112886MaRDI QIDQ2175833zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Weimin Han, Michal Jureczka, Anna Ochal

Publication date 30 April 2020

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1912.08022

convergence damage fully discrete scheme hemivariational inequality (HVI)optimal order error estimate quasistatic contact

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Variational and other types of inequalities involving nonlinear operators (general) (47J20) Numerical optimization and variational techniques (65K10) Finite difference methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M06) Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Error bounds for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Friction in solid mechanics (74M10) Contact in solid mechanics (74M15) Brittle damage (74R05)

Abstract: This paper is devoted to the study of a hemivariational inequality modeling the quasistatic bilateral frictional contact between a viscoelastic body and a rigid foundation. The damage effect is built into the model through a parabolic differential inclusion for the damage function. A solution existence and uniqueness result is presented. A fully discrete scheme is introduced with the time derivative of the damage function approximated by the backward finite different and the spatial derivatives approximated by finite elements. An optimal order error estimate is derived for the fully discrete scheme when linear elements are used for the velocity and displacement variables, and piecewise constants are used for the damage function. Simulation results on numerical examples are reported illustrating the performance of the fully discrete scheme and the theoretically predicted convergence orders.

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Many contact processes are accompanied with material damage. The authors study existence and solution of a mathematical model in the form of a hemivariational inequality (HVI) for a quasistatic bilateral frictional contact problem between a viscoelastic body and a rigid foundation. The damage of the material is incorporated through a parabolic differential inclusion. Since there are no solution formulas for HVIs in applications, a fully discrete numerical scheme is developed for the contact problem, where the time derivative of the damage function approximated by the backward finite difference and the spatial derivatives approximated by finite elements. Optimal order error estimates are derived under appropriate regularity assumptions. The discrete hemivariational inequality is reformulated as an optimization problem and solved using built-in constrained minimization algorithm from the Python library SciPy. Simulation results on a numerical example, illustrate numerical convergence orders that confirm the theoretical error bound.

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