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Frictional contact problems in engineering are often associated with very complex geometries and nonlinear material behaviour. For such problems only numerical methods yield the required solution and especially the finite element method has proved to be a flexible numerical tool in this context. Since numerical methods yield approximate solutions it is necessary to control the errors inherited in the method. During the last years adaptive finite element techniques have been developed, providing automatically a numerical model which is accurate and reliable. Here we introduce an adaptive method for frictional contact problems which ensures successive improvement of the numerical solution via an iterative solution procedure to refine the finite element mesh.
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Scherf, O., Wriggers, P. (1999). An Adaptive Finite Element Method for Large Deformation Frictional Contact Problems. In: Mang, H.A., Rammerstorfer, F.G. (eds) IUTAM Symposium on Discretization Methods in Structural Mechanics. Solid Mechanics and its Applications, vol 68. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4589-3_4
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