Research Article

Discontinuous Deformation Analysis Coupling with Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Contact Simulations

Figure 16

The displacement of the point obtained by different methods on sampled time nodes. The sampling time nodes are every 18 nodes in ANSYS results, while they are every 4 nodes in the IPG-DDA results.
(a) The displacement component (m) along the -axis
(b) The displacement component (m) along the -axis