We investigate the use of non-overlapping domain decomposition (DD) methods
for nonlinear structure problems. The classic techniques would combine a global
Newton solver with a linear DD solver for the tangent systems. We propose a
framework where we can swap Newton and DD, so that we solve independent
nonlinear problems for each substructure and linear condensed interface
problems. The objective is to decrease the number of communications between
subdomains and to improve parallelism. Depending on the interface condition, we
derive several formulations which are not equivalent, contrarily to the linear
case. Primal, dual and mixed variants are described and assessed on a simple
plasticity problem.Comment: in International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Wiley,
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