Author(s)

A. Blazquez & F. Paris

Abstract

The study of contact between deformable bodies with non conforming discretizations inherently involves the possibility of a node having contact with an element at any position along it. This paper presents a study of the influence that the position along the element of this contacting point has on the results The numerical technique used is the Boundary Element Method and the classic problem of the compression of a deformable cylinder on a deformable foundation, which belongs to the class of advancing contact problems, will be used as a reference to evaluate the errors induced by the position of the contacting point. 1 Introduction The first studies

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