Research Article

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

Figure 19

The zoomed deformations near the peak of the sliding plane solved out by the IPG-DDA. Four cases using different friction coefficients and time limits are illustrated. The inclination angle of the sliding plane is such that .
(a) at  s: slip expected
(b) at  s: slip expected
(c) at  s: stick expected
(d) at  s: stick expected