3D beam-to-beam contact within coupled electromechanical fields

A finite element model

authored by: D. P. Boso, Przemyslaw Litewka, B. A. Schrefler, Peter Wriggers
Abstract: In this paper a 3D beam-to-beam contact element is presented, to deal with contact problems in the coupled electric - mechanical fields. The beams are supposed to get in contact in a pointwise manner, the detection of the contact points and the computation of all contributions are carried out using a fully symmetric treatment of the two beams. Concerning the mechanical field, Hertz theory of contact for elastic bodies is considered. The contact area is varying according to the beamto- beam angle, being circular only in the case of perpendicular beams. This variation of the shape is taken into account too. The problem is semi-coupled: the mechanical field influences the electric one because of the dependence of the voltage distribution on the contact area.
Organisation(s): Institute of Mechanics and Computational Mechanics
External Organisation(s): University of Padova
Poznan University of Technology
Type: Contribution to book/anthology
Pages: 103-110
No. of pages: 8
Publication date: 02.10.2006
Publication status: Published
Peer reviewed: Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas: Mechanical Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics
Electronic version(s): https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31761-9_12 (Access: Unknown)
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