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We study the interior and exterior contact problems for hemitropic elastic solids. We treat the cases when the friction effects, described by Tresca friction (given friction model), are taken into consideration either on some part of the…
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We study the interaction between incompressible viscous fluids and multilayered elastic structures in a 3D/2D/3D framework, where a 3D fluid interacts with a 2D thin elastic layer, coupled to a 3D thick elastic solid. The system is driven…
A stress equilibration procedure for hyperelastic material models is proposed andanalyzed in this paper. Based on the displacement-pressure approximation computed with a stable finite element pair, it constructs, in a vertex-patch-wise…
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