A First-order Two-scale Analysis for Contact Problems with Small Periodic Configurations

Abstract

This paper is devoted to studying a type of contact problems modeled by hemivariational inequalities with small periodic coefficients appearing in PDEs, and the PDEs we considered are linear, second order and uniformly elliptic. Under the assumptions, it is proved that the original problem can be homogenized, and the solution weakly converges. We derive an $O(\epsilon^{1/2})$ estimation which is pivotal in building the computational framework. We also show that Robin problems--- a special case of contact problems, it leads to an $O(\epsilon)$ estimation in $L^2$ norm. Our computational framework is based on finite element methods, and the numerical analysis is given, together with experiments to convince the estimation.