Solving contact forces with the competition between potential energy and entropy in elastic mechanics

DOI10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.105958zbMath1477.74085OpenAlexW3178785927MaRDI QIDQ2246955

Qiu Li, Tingjian Wang, Zhao Cheng Xuan, Fengmei He, Yihuai Chen

Publication date: 16 November 2021

Published in: Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cnsns.2021.105958

zbMATH Keywords

finite element discretizationmaximum entropy principlepotential energyquadratic programming problemnodal contact forcenormalized Lagrange multipliers

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Quadratic programming (90C20) Contact in solid mechanics (74M15) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Thermodynamics in solid mechanics (74A15)

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