Research Article

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

Figure 21

The contours of the block vertical displacement components (m) solved out by the IPG-DDA in the cases of using the different friction coefficients and at the time instants  s and  s.
(a) at  s: slip expected
(b) at  s: slip expected
(c) at  s: stick expected
(d) at  s: stick expected