Abstract
In this paper, we consider residual and equilibrated error indicators for contact problems with Coulomb friction. The contact problem is handled within the abstract framework of saddle point problems. More precisely, the non-penetration constraint and the friction law is realized as a variationally consistent weak formulation in terms of a localized dual Lagrange multiplier space. Thus from the displacement, we can easily compute in a local post-process the Lagrange multiplier which acts as a Neumann condition on the possible contact zone. Having computed the discrete Lagrange multiplier, we can apply standard error estimators by replacing the unknown Neumann data by its approximation. As it is shown in [1], this results in an error estimator for a one-sided contact problem without friction. Here, we consider more general situations and discuss two additional contact terms which measure the non-conformity of the discrete Lagrange multiplier. Numerical results in two and three dimensions illustrate the flexibility of the approach and show the influence of the material parameters on the adaptive refinement process.
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