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A Residual Type Error Estimate for the Static Coulomb Friction Problem with Unilateral Contact

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Recent Advances in Contact Mechanics

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This paper is concerned with residual error estimators for finite element approximations of Coulomb frictional contact problems. A recent uniqueness result by Renard in [66] for the continuous problem allows us to perform the a posteriori error analysis.

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Hild, P., Lleras, V. (2013). A Residual Type Error Estimate for the Static Coulomb Friction Problem with Unilateral Contact. In: Stavroulakis, G. (eds) Recent Advances in Contact Mechanics. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 56. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33968-4_6

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