A frictionless three-dimensional contact algorithm based on the pre-discretization penalty formulation was proposed. The algorithm proved to be robust, accurate and symme [...]

The stability properties of the bipenalty method presented in Reference [4] is studied in application to one-dimensional bipenalized Signorini problem. The attention has [...]

In this paper, explicit dynamic finite element analysis of a firing pin assembly was performed. Two different geometries of the firing pin were considered using the finit [...]

In dynamic transient analysis, recent comprehensive studies have shown that using mass penalty together with standard stiffness penalty, the so-called bipenalty technique [...]

The main difficulty in the contact analysis is a non-smoothness of contacting surfaces. It arises from inequality constraints as well as from geometric discontinuities in [...]

The essential part of the solution of a contact problem in the finite element method is to locate probable contact areas reliably and efficiently. Most contact searching [...]

The critical Courant number limiting the length of time step in explicit integration schemes is inversely proportional to the maximum natural frequency of a finite elemen [...]