Computing an upper bound on contact stress with surrogate duality. (English) Zbl 1398.74425

Xuan, Zhaocheng; Papadopoulos, Panayiotis

Comput. Mech. 58, No. 1, 171-183 (2016).

Summary: We present a method for computing an upper bound on the contact stress of elastic bodies. The continuum model of elastic bodies with contact is first modeled as a constrained optimization problem by using finite elements. An explicit formulation of the total contact force, a fraction function with the numerator as a linear function and the denominator as a quadratic convex function, is derived with only the normalized nodal contact forces as the constrained variables in a standard simplex. Then two bounds are obtained for the sum of the nodal contact forces. The first is an explicit formulation of matrices of the finite element model, derived by maximizing the fraction function under the constraint that the sum of the normalized nodal contact forces is one. The second bound is solved by first maximizing the fraction function subject to the standard simplex and then using Dinkelbach’s algorithm for fractional programming to find the maximum – since the fraction function is pseudo concave in a neighborhood of the solution. These two bounds are solved with the problem dimensions being only the number of contact nodes or node pairs, which are much smaller than the dimension for the original problem, namely, the number of degrees of freedom. Next, a scheme for constructing an upper bound on the contact stress is proposed that uses the bounds on the sum of the nodal contact forces obtained on a fine finite element mesh and the nodal contact forces obtained on a coarse finite element mesh, which are problems that can be solved at a lower computational cost. Finally, the proposed method is verified through some examples concerning both frictionless and frictional contact to demonstrate the method’s feasibility, efficiency, and robustness.

MSC:

74S05	Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics
65N30	Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs
65N15	Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs
74M15	Contact in solid mechanics
74B05	Classical linear elasticity

Keywords:

contact stress; upper bound; surrogate duality; finite elements

Software:

SimpleS

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