Time-stepping method for frictional contact of anisotropic viscoelastic solids

By the time-stepping method proposed in this paper, the basic equations for linear anisotropic viscoelasticity with small strains and quasi-static condition can be separated into two parts. One is an elastic system of the initial state, and the other is an elastic-like system related to the follow-up time step. Based upon this result, all the viscoelastic problems can be handled by two sets of elastic systems. Boundary element method and its...