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A new contact element based on the penalty function method has been developed for frictional contact problems in Finite Element Analysis (FEA). The novel advantage of this new algorithm is that the contact element stiffness matrix is symmetric, even for frictional contact problems with a large sliding mode. This element can satisfactorily simulate sticking, sliding and separation modes in frictional...