On the efficient reconstruction of displacements in FETI methods for contact problems

Abstract

The final step in the solution of contact problems of elasticity by FETI-based domain decomposition methods is the reconstruction of displacements corresponding to the Lagrange multipliers for ''gluing'' of subdomains and non-penetration conditions. The rigid body component of the displacements is usually obtained by means of a well known but quite complex formula, the application of which requires reassembling and factorization of some large matrices. Here we propose a simple formula which is applicable to many variants of the FETI based algorithms for contact problems. The method takes a negligible time and avoids reassembling or factorization of any matrices.