Trends in Computational Contact Mechanics

✍ Scribed by Damien Durville (auth.), Giorgio Zavarise, Peter Wriggers (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 363
• Series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics 58
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The subject of Computational Contact Mechanics has many facets. Its main impact lies in the transfer of knowledge form theoretical research to applied sciences, and from there to industry. The application fields are literally countless, ranging from classical engineering to biomechanics and nano-sciences.

The remarkable increase of computer power in recent years has been instrumental in enabling the development of simulation-based analysis in current design activity. This still involves tremendous effort in research, which focuses on, for example, multi-field and multi-scale problems, algorithmic robustness, and geometrical accuracy. Moreover, several aspects of Contact Mechanics, Debonding and Fracture Mechanics, have been combined to offer new enhanced possibilities to the computer simulation of complex phenomena.

With these contributions of prominent scientists, this book offers a wide overview on the ongoing research at the highest level in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages -
Contact Modelling in Entangled Fibrous Materials....Pages 1-22
3D Contact Smoothing Method Based on Quasi-C1 Interpolation....Pages 23-40
On a Geometrically Exact Theory for Contact Interactions....Pages 41-56
Finite Deformation Contact Based on a 3D Dual Mortar and Semi-Smooth Newton Approach....Pages 57-77
The Contact Patch Test for Linear Contact Pressure Distributions in 2D Frictionless Contact....Pages 79-100
Finite Deformation Thermomechanical Contact Homogenization Framework....Pages 101-119
Analysis of Granular Chute Flow Based on a Particle Model Including Uncertainties....Pages 121-134
Soft Soil Contact Modeling Technique for Multi-Body System Simulation....Pages 135-155
A Semi-Explicit Modified Mass Method for Dynamic Frictionless Contact Problems....Pages 157-168
An Explicit Asynchronous Contact Algorithm for Elastic-Rigid Body Interaction....Pages 169-191
Dynamics of a Soft Contractile Body on a Hard Support....Pages 193-210
Two-Level Block Preconditioners for Contact Problems....Pages 211-226
A Local Contact Detection Technique for Very Large Contact and Self-Contact Problems: Sequential and Parallel Implementations....Pages 227-251
Cauchy and Cosserat Equivalent Continua for the Multiscale Analysis of Periodic Masonry Walls....Pages 253-268
Coupled Friction and Roughness Surface Effects in Shallow Spherical Nanoindentation....Pages 269-289
Application of the Strain Rate Intensity Factor to Modeling Material Behavior in the Vicinity of Frictional Interfaces....Pages 291-320
Unilateral Problems for Laminates: A Variational Formulation with Constraints in Dual Spaces....Pages 321-338
Contact Modelling in Structural Simulation – Approaches, Problems and Chances....Pages 339-354

✦ Subjects

Theoretical and Applied Mechanics; Appl.Mathematics/Computational Methods of Engineering; Continuum Mechanics and Mechanics of Materials