Advanced Discretization Methods for Contact Mechanics

authored by

Peter Wriggers

Abstract

Modeling of contact problems is essential for many problems in engineering in order to predict the behaviour and response of various systems. One can think of pile driving, complex bearings, connections in Civil Engineering, of vehicle road interaction, machines and forming processes in Mechanical Engineering and of MEMS and electrical circuits in Electrical Engineering. All these systems need predictions of the behaviour, durability and efficiency. Hence models are needed that have to be solved by numerical methods due to their complexity. This contribution is aimed at modeling of contact in solid mechanics. Due to the necessity to use numerical methods for the solution of most contact applications this paper will focus mainly on numerical simulation models. Here especially new methodologies are considered that are non-standard and open the possibility for more general application ranges when compared to conventional approaches.

Organisation(s)

Institute of Continuum Mechanics

Type

Contribution to book/anthology

Pages

87-123

No. of pages

37

Publication date

20.05.2018

Publication status

Published

Peer reviewed

Yes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Mechanical Engineering, Mechanics of Materials, Computer Science Applications, Modelling and Simulation

Electronic version(s)

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90155-8_2 (Access: Closed)

 

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