Abstract
A method for the analysis of contact of deformable bodies based on the boundary element method (BEM) has been presented in this paper. The contact problem is stated in the form of a convex quadratic programming (QP) problem written in terms of the contact tractions on the contact surface. A strategy for the incorporation of the BEM contact analysis into models whose domain may be discretized using the finite element method (FEM) has been investigated. A discussion concerning the merits of the proposed approach is provided and several examples are presented to illustrate the validity of the method.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 325-331 |
| Number of pages | 7 |
| Journal | AIAA Journal |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue number | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Feb 1995 |
Funding
This research has been supported in part by the National Science Foundation Presidential Young Investigator award MSS-9057055 with Oscar Dillon as the program manager, and by the Division of Material Sciences, U.S. Department of Energy, under contract DE-AC05-84OR21400 with Martin Marietta Energy Systems, Inc., by an appointment to the Oak Ridge National Laboratory Postdoc- toral Research Associates Program administered jointly by the Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education and Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| Division of Material Sciences | |
| National Science Foundation | MSS-9057055 |
| U.S. Department of Energy | DE-AC05-84OR21400 |
| Oak Ridge National Laboratory | |
| Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education |