Detailed knowledge about the function and morphology of temporomandibular joint are necessary for clinical applications and for analyses of the function of temporomandibular joint prosthesis. Movements of temporomandibular joint are biomechanically sophisticated and are up-to-date not clear....

A non-overlapping domain decomposition is applied to a multibody unilateral contact problem with given friction (Tresca’s model). Approximations are proposed on the basis of the primary variational formulation (in terms of displacements) and linear finite elements. For the discretized problem...