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Formulation and Analysis of Conserving Algorithms for Dynamic Contact/Impact Problems

Armero, Francisco; Petocz, Eva

UCB/SEMM-1996/10, Dept. of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, 1996-09-01, 43 pages (500/C23/96/10)

The paper presents the formulation of conserving, time-stepping algorithms for frictionless dynamic contact of solids. A new class of finite element methods for these problems is proposed that exhibits the same conservation laws as the underlying continuum dynamical system.

Available online: http://nisee.berkeley.edu/documents/SEMM/SEMM-96-10.pdf (2 MB)