Dear Colleague,
I kindly inform you that, in the framework of the 14th International
Conference on Fracture (ICF14), to be held in Rhodes, Greece, June 18-23,
2017, we are organizing a mini-symposium on "Fracture and contact in
multiphysics problems: from energy to biological applications".
If you are interested, please submit your two-page abstract through the
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mini-symposium.
Understanding the dynamic stability of bodies in frictional contact steadily sliding one over the other is of basic interest in various disciplines such as physics, solid mechanics, materials science and geophysics. Here we report on a two-dimensional linear stability analysis of a deformable solid of a finite height H, steadily sliding on top of a rigid solid within a generic rate-and-state friction type constitutive framework, fully accounting for elastodynamic effects.
We are proud to announce International Conference on Advances in Applied and Computational Mechanics, which is organized in the honor of 70th birthday of Prof.J.N.Reddy. This is a tribute for his many and lasting contribution to education and research in applied mechanics.
Conference will be held at WYNDHAM GRAND Hotel, Inciralti Izmir/Turkey during August 5-7, 2015.
Dear Colleague,
I would like to inform you that the annual report on the scientific and educational activities carried out by the research unit MUSAM on Multi-scale Analysis of Materials at IMT Lucca during 2014 can be downloaded from the following link:
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Yours sincerely,
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We are looking for a student to work on the topic "Development of advanced numerical methods in contact mechanics for aerospace applications"
Scientific advisers: Vladislav Yastrebov, Georges Cailletaud (MINES), Frederic Feyel (SAFRAN)
Period: 36 months (CIFRE)
Laboratory: Centre for Material Sciences, MINES ParisTech, PSL Research University, CNRS UMR 7633, Evry, France (30 minutes from Paris) www.mat.mines-paristech.fr
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I am modelling a very simple 2D contact problem between a rigid wedge indenter and a deformable squared-shape specimen (general steel material) in frictionless contact case. I used an implicit function f to describe the rigid indenter.
I implemented Lagrange multiplier method for this contact problem and the contact condition is: Inside the contact zone of the deformable specimen, the node set is active if f(node)<=0 and the Lagrange multiplier lambda<=0.
I am modelling a very simple 2D contact problem between a rigid indenter and a deformable squared-shape specimen. I used a implicit function f to describe the rigid indenter.
The contact condition is: Inside the contact zone of the deformable specimen, a node n is outside of rigid indenter for f(n)>0, and inside for f(n)<0. In case f(n)=0, the contacting node lies on the surface of the rigid body.
Hello Everyone,
I am simulating contact of a sphere with a soft elastomer (Hertz contact). Unlike the hertz contact, I will like to simulate large deformations. My model is a 2D axisymmetric model and the load is displacement controlled. The current model fails at total time/freq ~ 0.84. I have tried refining my mesh and have reduced the increment size and increased the number of increments. Currently, step my parameters are:
Max. number of increments: 200000 and Increment size:0.005/1E-5/0.01
Nlgeom is On because of the large deformation.
