In this paper a procedure for simulating deformable elastic body rigid body interaction is presented. The interaction is described by multiple impacts during the dynamical process. An elastic body modeled as a 3D particles system is proposed, in response to the dynamic impacting force. The contact between particles is modeled with elastic springs. The expression for the spring elastic constants...

This paper studies the elastic contact in filaments induced by surface adhesion, which plays an important role in the mechanical response of fibrous materials (e.g., fiber friction, sliding, compression hysteresis, etc.). During the process, a simple 3D elastic contact model was proposed. The filaments were assumed to be uniform, smooth elastic cylinders, and the adhesive force between filament...

This work presents a finite element study of elasto-plastic hemispherical contact. The results are normalized such that they are valid for macro contacts (e.g., rolling element bearings) and micro contacts (e.g., asperity contact). The material is modeled as elastic-perfectly plastic. The numerical results are compared to other existing models of spherical contact, including the fully plastic c...

The fundamentals of particle-particle adhesion for ultrafine particles (d < 10 μm) are presented using continuum mechanics approaches. The models for elastic (Hertz, Huber), elastic-adhesive (Derjaguin, Johnson, Maugis, Greenwood), viscoelastic (Yang), plastic-adhesive (Krupp, Molerus, Johnson, Maugis & Pollock) contact displacement response of a single, normal loaded, isotropic, smooth contact...

Using a general theory for evolution inclusions, existence and uniqueness theorems are obtained for weak solutions to a frictional dynamic contact problem for elastic visco-plastic material. An existence theorem in the case where the friction coefficient is discontinuous is also presented.

0020-7683/$ see front matter 2011 Elsevier Ltd. A doi:10.1016/j.ijsolstr.2011.03.008 ⇑ Corresponding author. Tel.: +1 7349360406; fax: E-mail address: [email protected] (J.R. Barber). Quasi-static frictional contact problems for bodies of fairly general profile that can be represented as half planes can be solved using an extension of the methods of Ciavarella and Jäger. Here we consider the ta...

Abstract-We analyze a three-dimensional frictional contact problem between a homogeneous and isotropic linear elastic body and a substrate consisting of a homogeneous and isotropic linear elastic half-space coated with a transversely isotropic elastic layer. The problem formulation includes the kinematics of the body, including its rolling/sliding on the substrate. Expressions relating the disp...

Researchers have developedmanymodels to simulate the elasto-plastic contact of spheres. However, there does not appear to exist a closed-form analytical model for elasto-plastic three-dimensional sinusoidal contact. This work uses a finite element model (FEM) to characterize elasto-plastic sinusoidal contact. Although at initial contact the sphere and sinusoidal case are very similar and can bo...

Contact pressure in the knee joint is a key element in the mechanisms of knee pain and osteoarthritis. Assessing the contact pressure in tibiofemoral joint is a challenging mechanical problem due to uncertainty in material properties. In this study, a sensitivity analysis of tibiofemoral peak contact pressure to the material properties of the soft tissue was carried out through fractional facto...