Weak imposition of Signorini boundary conditions on the boundary element method

08/15/2019

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by   Erik Burman, et al.

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We derive and analyse a boundary element formulation for boundary conditions involving inequalities. In particular, we focus on Signorini contact conditions. The Calderón projector is used for the system matrix and boundary conditions are weakly imposed using a particular variational boundary operator designed using techniques from augmented Lagrangian methods. We present a complete numerical a priori error analysis and present some numerical examples to illustrate the theory.