Solution of interface problems with nonmonotone contact and friction laws using a neural network optimization environment

  • Authors:
  • E. S. Mistakidis

  • Affiliations:
  • Laboratory of Structural Analysis and Design, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Thessaly, Pedion Areos, 38334 Volos, Greece

  • Venue:
  • Advances in Engineering Software - Special issue on engineering computational technology
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

The paper addresses the solution of interface problems which present a degrading behaviour leading to nonmonotone contact and friction laws. The paper is based on a superpotential formulation that leads to hemivariational inequalities, or, equivalently to nonconvex-nonsmooth optimization problems. The above problems are addressed with a heuristic method which effectively replaces the nonconvex nonsmooth optimization problem by a sequence of quadratic programming problems with inequality constraints. Then, the quadratic optimization problems are transformed into a system of differential equations, which are treated numerically with an appropriate neural network. Finally, a numerical example illustrates the properties of the proposed algorithmic scheme.