Convergence of a space semi-discrete modified mass method for the dynamic Signorini problem
Stability and convergence of numerical methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M12) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for initial value and initial-boundary value problems involving PDEs (65M60) Linear constitutive equations for materials with memory (74D05) Contact in solid mechanics (74M15) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)
The dynamic Signorini problem models infinitesimal deformations of a solid body which can come into contact with a rigid obstacle. The body occupies a reference domain \(\Omega \subset {\mathbb{R}}^d\) (\(d=2,3\)) during a time interval \([0,T]\). The boundary of the domain \(\Omega\) is piecewise smooth, so that its outward normal, \(n\), is well defined almost everywhere at the boundary. The material is linear viscoelastic (Kelvin-Voigt model). Then a precise formulation of the dynamic Signorini problem can be given by \[ \begin{aligned} &\rho \ddot{u}-\text{div} \sigma=f, \sigma = \mathcal{A}:\varepsilon + \mathcal{B} : \overline{\varepsilon}, \;\varepsilon = \frac{1}{2} (\nabla u + \nabla u^T)\,\, \text{ in }\,\, \Omega \times (0,T);\\ & u_n \leq 0, \;\sigma_{nn} \leq 0, \;\sigma_{nn} u_n = 0\,\, \text{ on \,\,} \Gamma^C \times (0,T);\\ &\sigma\cdot n =0 \,\,\text{ on } \Gamma^N \times (0,T), \;u=0 \,\, \text{ on }\,\, \Gamma^D \times (0,T);\\ & u(0) = u^o, \dot{u}(0) = v^o\,\, \text{ in }\,\, \Omega. \end{aligned} \tag{1} \] The authors consider the following variational formulation of equations (1): seek \(u \in L^2(0,T,K) \cap H^1 (0,T,V) \cap C^1 ([0,T],M)\) such that for all \(v \in L^2 (0,T,K) \cap H^1 (0,T,M)\), \[ \begin{aligned} \int^T_0\{-m(\dot{u},\dot{v} - \dot{u}) &+ a (u,v - u) + b (\dot{u},v -u) \} dt + m (\dot{u}(T), v(T) \\ &- u(T)) - m (\nu^0, v(0)-u^o) \geq \int ^T_0 l (t, v-u)dt. \end{aligned} \tag{2} \] The main result: the convergence, up to a subsequence, of the space semi-discrete solutions to a solution of the continuous dynamic Signorini problem in the case of viscoelastic material. The proof uses a priori estimates for space semi-discrete solutions and compactness arguments. The reviewer notes that the mass modification at the contact boundary requires a special care when passing to the limit as \(k \rightarrow \infty\). Here in both cases (penalty method or finite-dimensional variational inequality), the a priori estimate on the velocity delivered by the viscosity term plays a crucial role in the proposed proof (this argument cannot be extended to the vanishing viscosity limit).
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