Finite deformations govern the anisotropic shear-induced area reduction of soft elastic contacts

Then we use this decomposition technique and estimates to justify a nonlinear bending model for elastic shells for an elastic energy of order δ

Figure 4 shows that for a well-posed method, the energy tends to be conserved for small time steps, but Figures 5 and 6 show that, with an ill-posed method (such as

A boundary-value problem for a long hollow porous solid cylinder filled with an ideal fluid is solved, and the stability of the stressed reference configuration with respect

For rough con- tacts involving rubber or human skin, we show that the real contact area, to which static friction is proportional, signifi- cantly decreases under increasing shear,

Keywords: Two deformable bodies contact problem, Nitsche’s method, Unbiased /Master- Slave formulation, Tresca friction, Finite element

After numerous numerical works developed in various contexts of mechanics, the first a priori error estimate results for XFEM (in linear elasticity) were recently obtained in [13]

Results for various values of η are displayed on Fig. The first one is is the transition between coating and substrate response [1], when ˜ a ≃ 1 as described in the previous

So far in the literature, such an area reduction during incipient tangential loading of a sphere / plane contact has been interpreted using adhesion models, most of which are based