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Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Applied Mathematics Volume 2012, Article ID 156095, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/156095 Research Article Superconvergence Analysis of Finite Element Method for a Second-Type Variational Inequality Dongyang Shi,1 Hongbo Guan,1, 2 and Xiaofei Guan3 1 Department of Mathematics, Zhengzhou University, Zhengzhou 450001, China 2 Department of Mathematics and Information Science, Zhengzhou University of Light Industry, Zhengzhou 450002, China 3 Department of Mathematics, Tongji University, Shanghai 200092, China Correspondence should be addressed to Xiaofei Guan, guanxf@ Received 10 May 2012; Accepted 14 October 2012 Academic Editor: Song Cen Copyright q 2012 Dongyang Shi et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. This paper studies the finite element FE approximation to a second-type variational inequality. The supe rclose and superconvergence results are obtained for conforming bilinear FE and nonconforming EQrot FE schemes under a reasonable regularity of the exact solution u ∈ H5/2 Ω, which seem to be never discovered in the previous literature. The optimal L2 -norm error estimate is also derived for EQrot FE. At last, some numerical results are provided to verify the theoretical analysis. 1. Introduction Variational inequality VI theory has been playing an important role in the obstacle problem, contact problem, elasticity problem, and so on 1. FE methods for solving VI problems have attracted more and more attentions. For example, as regards to the first type-VI case, the authors of 2 used piecewise quadratic FE t