TY - GEN A1 - Klapproth, Corinna A1 - Schiela, Anton A1 - Deuflhard, Peter T1 - Consistency Results for the Contact-Stabilized Newmark Method N2 - The paper considers the time integration of frictionless dynamical contact problems between viscoelastic bodies in the frame of the Signorini condition. Among the numerical integrators, interest focuses on the contact-stabilized Newmark method recently suggested by Deuflhard et al., which is compared to the classical Newmark method and an improved energy dissipative version due to Kane et al. In the absence of contact, any such variant is equivalent to the Störmer-Verlet scheme, which is well-known to have consistency order 2. In the presence of contact, however, the classical approach to discretization errors would not show consistency at all because of the discontinuity at the contact. Surprisingly, the question of consistency in the constrained situation has not been solved yet. The present paper fills this gap by means of a novel proof technique using specific norms based on earlier perturbation results due to the authors. The corresponding estimation of the local discretization error requires the bounded total variation of the solution. The results have consequences for the construction of an adaptive timestep control, which will be worked out subsequently in a forthcoming paper. T3 - ZIB-Report - 09-06 KW - Dynamical contact problems KW - viscoelasticity KW - Signorini condition KW - consistency KW - Newmark method Y1 - 2009 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-11164 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Klapproth, Corinna A1 - Deuflhard, Peter A1 - Schiela, Anton T1 - A Perturbation Result for Dynamical Contact Problems N2 - This paper is intended to be a first step towards the continuous dependence of dynamical contact problems on the initial data as well as the uniqueness of a solution. Moreover, it provides the basis for a proof of the convergence of popular time integration schemes as the Newmark method. We study a frictionless dynamical contact problem between both linearly elastic and viscoelastic bodies which is formulated via the Signorini contact conditions. For viscoelastic materials fulfilling the Kelvin-Voigt constitutive law, we find a characterization of the class of problems which satisfy a perturbation result in a non-trivial mix of norms in function space. This characterization is given in the form of a stability condition on the contact stresses at the contact boundaries. Furthermore, we present perturbation results for two well-established approximations of the classical Signorini condition: The Signorini condition formulated in velocities and the model of normal compliance, both satisfying even a sharper version of our stability condition. T3 - ZIB-Report - 08-27 KW - Dynamical contact problems KW - stability KW - (visco-)elasticity KW - Signorini condition KW - Newmark method Y1 - 2008 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-10793 SN - 1438-0064 ER - TY - GEN A1 - Klapproth, Corinna T1 - The Contact-Stabilized Newmark Method - Consistency Error of a Spatiotemporal Discretization N2 - The paper considers an improved variant of the contact-stabilized Newmark method by Deuflhard et al., which provides a spatiotemporal numerical integration of dynamical contact problems between viscoelastic bodies in the frame of the Signorini condition. Up no now, the question of consistency in the case of contact constraints has been discussed for time integrators in function space under the assumption of bounded total variation of the solution. Here, interest focusses on the consistency error of the Newmark scheme in physical energy norm after discretization both in time and in space. The resulting estimate for the local discretization error allows to prove global convergence of the Newmark scheme under an additional assumption on the active contact boundaries. T3 - ZIB-Report - 12-18 KW - dynamical contact problems, contact-stabilized Newmark method, consistency error Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:0297-zib-15198 SN - 1438-0064 ER -