Direct Approach to Treatment of Contact in Numerical Manifold Method
Publication: International Journal of Geomechanics
Volume 17, Issue 5
Abstract
The numerical manifold method (NMM) is suitable for the solution of both continuous and discontinuous problems in geotechnical engineering. In the conventional NMM, the contact between blocks is treated with the open-close iteration, which needs to fix or remove spurious springs between two blocks in contact and to assume properly the normal stiffness and the tangential stiffness (the penalty parameters). Unreasonable values of stiffness would result in numerical problems. To avoid the penalty parameters, contacts are treated in a direct way in which contact forces are primal variables. Numerical examples have confirmed the correctness and feasibility of the proposed procedure.
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Acknowledgments
This study is supported by the National Basic Research Program of China (973 Program), under Grant No. 2014CB047100, and the National Natural Science Foundation of China, under Grant Nos. 11172313 and 51538001.
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Received: Aug 10, 2015
Accepted: Apr 7, 2016
Published online: Aug 8, 2016
Discussion open until: Jan 8, 2017
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