On Nitsche's method for elastic contact problems

DOI10.1137/19M1246869MaRDI QIDQ5221024zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Tom Gustafsson, Juha H. Videman, Rolf Stenberg

Publication date 27 March 2020

Published in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1902.09312

zbMATH Keywords

variational inequalityNitsche's methodelastic contact

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

PDEs in connection with mechanics of deformable solids (35Q74) Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Classical linear elasticity (74B05) Contact in solid mechanics (74M15)

Abstract: We show quasi-optimality and a posteriori error estimates for the frictionless contact problem between two elastic bodies with a zero-gap function. The analysis is based on interpreting Nitsche's method as a stabilised finite element method for which the error estimates can be obtained with minimal regularity assumptions and without the saturation assumption. We present three different Nitsche's mortaring techniques for the contact boundary each corresponding to a different stabilising term. Our numerical experiments show the robustness of Nitsche's method and corroborates the efficiency of the a posteriori error estimators.

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