Add contact in Fenics

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Hello everyone,

I want to implement the contact between two meshes in Fenics, the first one being undeformable and fixed in space, and the second one being deformable - I’ll define the young modulus and poisson ratio - and falling on the other. So theoretically, the shape of the 2nd object would change when coming into contact with the 1st object.

Is it possible to do that with Fenics ? And if so, is there any tutorial or example to learn how to do that ?

Best regards,
Clement.

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Yes it is possible, but this is a deep research question with varying degrees of complexity. Perhaps you could start here.

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Ok I’ll take a look, thanks !