Unilateral Crack Identification: A Filter-Driven, Iterative, Boundary Element Approach

  • Authors:
  • G. E. Stavroulakis;H. Antes

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Applied Mechanics , Carolo Wilhelmina Technical University , Braunschweig , Germany;Institute of Applied Mechanics , Carolo Wilhelmina Technical University , Braunschweig , Germany

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Global Optimization
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

An identification problem for parametric variational inequalities and linear com-plementarity problems is solved here by means of iterative filter techniques. A concrete application in engineering mechanics, the unilateral crack identification problem, is solved. The elastic contact problem is formulated by boundary element-linear complementarity techniques. By means of numerical results and comparison with previous approaches based on optimization and neural networks it is shown that this method is advantageous. In view of the difficulty of the considered bilevel optimization problem, this approach may be of interest for other applications as well.