An application of the FETI method to a friction damped system

A domain decomposition algorithm based on the FETI method is developed for the solution of friction contact problems in structural dynamics, coupled with the framework of vibration analysis. After a thorough theoretical discussion, we follow with the description of a practical algorithm for the implementation in MATLAB and the presentation of a number of results showing the physical phenomena involved and proving the effectiveness of parallel scalability in the 1D case.