Research Article
A Smooth System of Equations Approach to Complementarity Problems for Frictionless Contacts
Table 1
Gap between node pairs in potential contact region for three kinds of element size.
| Element size in potential contact region/m | Contact length/m | Gap/mm |
| 0.03 | 0 | 0 | 0.03 | 0 | 0.06 | 0 | 0.09 | 0 | 0.12 | 0 | 0.15 | 0 | 0.18 | 0 | 0.21 | 0.09 | 0.24 | 0.65 | 0.27 | 1.55 | 0.3 | 2.72 |
| 0.05 | 0 | 0 | 0.05 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.15 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.25 | 0.96 | 0.3 | 2.76 |
| 0.1 | 0 | 0 | 0.1 | 0 | 0.2 | 0 | 0.3 | 2.81 |
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