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Application of an enriched FEM technique in thermo-mechanical contact problems

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In this paper, an enriched FEM technique is employed for thermo-mechanical contact problem based on the extended finite element method. A fully coupled thermo-mechanical contact formulation is presented in the framework of X-FEM technique that takes into account the deformable continuum mechanics and the transient heat transfer analysis. The Coulomb frictional law is applied for the mechanical contact problem and a pressure dependent thermal contact model is employed through an explicit formulation in the weak form of X-FEM method. The equilibrium equations are discretized by the Newmark time splitting method and the final set of non-linear equations are solved based on the Newton–Raphson method using a staggered algorithm. Finally, in order to illustrate the capability of the proposed computational model several numerical examples are solved and the results are compared with those reported in literature.

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Khoei, A.R., Bahmani, B. Application of an enriched FEM technique in thermo-mechanical contact problems. Comput Mech 62, 1127–1154 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-018-1555-z

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