International Journal of applied mathematics and computer science

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Number 1 - March 2002
Volume 12 - 2002

Mesh r-adaptation for unilateral contact problems

Pierre Béal, Jonas Koko, Rachid Touzani

Abstract
We present a mesh adaptation method by node movement for two-dimensional linear elasticity problems with unilateral contact. The adaptation is based on a hierarchical estimator on finite element edges and the node displacement techniques use an analogy of the mesh topology with a spring network. We show, through numerical examples, the efficiency of the present adaptation method.

Keywords
unilateral contact, linear elasticity, mesh adaptivity, node movement