Stabilized mixed hp-BEM for frictional contact problems in linear elasticity
arXiv:1407.1803 · doi:10.1007/s00211-016-0797-y
Abstract
We investigate hp-stabilization for variational inequalities and boundary element methods based on the approach introduced by Barbosa and Hughes for finite elements. Convergence of a stabilized mixed boundary element method is shown for unilateral frictional contact problems for the Lame equation. Without stabilization, this may not converge because the inf-sup constant need not be bounded away from zero for natural discretizations, even for fixed h and p. Both a priori and a posteriori error estimates are presented in the case of Tresca friction, for discretizations based on Bernstein or Gauss-Lobatto-Lagrange polynomials as test and trial functions. We also consider an extension of the a posteriori estimate to Coulomb friction. Numerical experiments underline our theoretical results.
32 pages, 17 figures
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