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Most building materials can be characterized as quasi-brittle composites with a cementitious matrix, reinforced by some stiffening particles or elements. Their massive exploitation motivates the development of numerical modelling and simulation of behaviour of such material class under mechanical, thermal, etc. loads, including the evaluation of the risk of initiation and development of micro- and macro-fracture. This paper demonstrates the possibility of certain deterministic prediction, applying...
In this work, we consider the quasistatic frictionless contact problem between a
viscoelastic piezoelectric body and a deformable obstacle. The linear electro-viscoelastic
constitutive law is employed to model the piezoelectric material and the normal compliance
condition is used to model the contact. The variational formulation is derived in a form
of a coupled system for the displacement and electric potential fields. An existence and
uniqueness result is recalled. Then, a fully discrete scheme...
A new class of history-dependent quasivariational inequalities was recently studied in [M. Sofonea and A. Matei, History-dependent quasivariational inequalities arising in contact mechanics. Eur. J. Appl. Math. 22 (2011) 471–491]. Existence, uniqueness and regularity results were proved and used in the study of several mathematical models which describe the contact between a deformable body and an obstacle. The aim of this paper is to provide numerical analysis of the quasivariational inequalities...
In this work, the quasistatic thermoviscoelastic thermistor problem is
considered. The thermistor model describes the combination of the effects due to
the heat, electrical current conduction and Joule's heat generation. The variational
formulation leads to a coupled system of nonlinear variational equations for which
the existence of a weak solution is recalled.
Then, a fully discrete algorithm is introduced based on the finite element
method to approximate the spatial variable and an Euler scheme...
The analysis of dynamic contacts/impacts of several deformable bodies belongs to both theoretically and computationally complicated problems, because of the presence of unpleasant nonlinearities and of the need of effective contact detection. This paper sketches how such difficulties can be overcome, at least for a model problem with several elastic bodies, using i) the explicit time-discretization scheme and ii) the finite element technique adopted to contact evaluations together with iii) the...
Computational modelling of contact problems is still one of the most difficult aspects of non-linear analysis in engineering mechanics. The article introduces an original efficient explicit algorithm for evaluation of impacts of bodies, satisfying the conservation of both momentum and energy exactly. The algorithm is described in its linearized 2-dimensional formulation in details, as open to numerous generalizations including 3-dimensional ones, and supplied by numerical examples obtained from...
We analyse the effect of the mechanical response of the solid phase during liquid/solid phase change by numerical simulation of a benchmark test based on the well-known and debated experiment of melting of a pure gallium slab counducted by Gau & Viskanta in 1986. The adopted mathematical model includes the description of the melt flow and of the solid phase deformations. Surprisingly the conclusion reached is that, even in this case of pure material, the contribution of the solid phase to the...
The propagation of fractures in a solid undergoing cyclic loadings
is known as the fatigue phenomenon. In this paper, we present a time continuous
model for fatigue, in the special situation of the debonding of thin layers,
coming from a time discretized version recently proposed by
Jaubert and Marigo [C. R. Mecanique333 (2005) 550–556].
Under very general assumptions on the surface energy density and
on the applied displacement, we discuss the well-posedness of our
problem and we give the main...
In this work, we consider dynamic frictionless contact with adhesion
between a viscoelastic body of the Kelvin-Voigt type and a
stationary rigid obstacle, based on the Signorini's contact conditions.
Including the adhesion processes modeled by the bonding field, a new
version of energy function is defined. We use the energy function
to derive a new form of energy balance which is supported by numerical
results. Employing the time-discretization,
we establish a numerical formulation and investigate...
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