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In this paper, a Signorini problem in three dimensions is reduced to a variational inequality on the boundary, and a boundary element method is described for the numerical approximation of its solution; an optimal error estimate is also given.
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This work is supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China, and by the Royal Society of London