On the coupling of regularization techniques and the boundary element method for a hemivariational inequality modelling a delamination problem

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Authors: Nina Ovcharova, Lothar Banz 

Publication date: 21 October 2015

Abstract: In this paper, we couple regularization techniques with the adaptive $hp$-version of the boundary element method ($hp$-BEM) for the efficient numerical solution of linear elastic problems with nonmonotone contact boundary conditions. As a model example we treat the delamination of composite structures with a contaminated interface layer. This problem has a weak formulation in terms of a nonsmooth variational inequality. The resulting hemivariational inequality (HVI) is first regularized and then, discretized by an adaptive $hp$-BEM. We give conditions for the uniqueness of the solution and provide an a-priori error estimate. Furthermore, we derive an a-posteriori error estimate for the nonsmooth variational problem based on a novel regularized mixed formulation, thus enabling $hp$-adaptivity. Various numerical experiments illustrate the behavior, strengths and weaknesses of the proposed high-order approximation scheme.

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