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Unilateral contact applications using FEM software

M. Stavroulaki, G. Stavroulakis (2002)

International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science

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Nonsmooth analysis, inequality constrained optimization and variational inequalities are involved in the modelling of unilateral contact problems. The corresponding theoretical and algorithmic tools, which are part of the area known as nonsmooth mechanics, are by no means classical. In general purpose software some of these tools (perhaps in a simplified way) are currently available. Two engineering applications, a rubber-coated roller contact problem and a masonry wall, solved with...

Multiscale Materials Modelling: Case Studies at the Atomistic and Electronic Structure Levels

Emilio Silva, Clemens Först, Ju Li, Xi Lin, Ting Zhu, Sidney Yip (2007)

ESAIM: Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis

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Although the intellectual merits of computational modelling across various length and time scales are generally well accepted, good illustrative examples are often lacking. One way to begin appreciating the benefits of the multiscale approach is to first gain experience in probing complex physical phenomena at one scale at a time. Here we discuss materials modelling at two characteristic scales separately, the atomistic level where interactions are specified through classical potentials...

Kinematic criteria of dynamic shakedown extended to nonassociative constitutive laws with saturation nonlinear hardening

Alberto Corigliano, Giulio Maier, Slawomir Pycko (1995)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

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The class of elastic-plastic material models considered allows for nonassociativity, nonlinear hardening and saturation in the sense that the static internal variables are constrained by a bounding surface described through convex bounding functions. With reference to finite element, generalized variables discretization in space, two dynamic shakedown criteria are established by a kinematic approach in Koiter's sense, based on weak constitutive restrictions and centered on two suitable...

On implicit constitutive theories

Kumbakonam R. Rajagopal (2003)

Applications of Mathematics

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In classical constitutive models such as the Navier-Stokes fluid model, and the Hookean or neo-Hookean solid models, the stress is given explicitly in terms of kinematical quantities. Models for viscoelastic and inelastic responses on the other hand are usually implicit relationships between the stress and the kinematical quantities. Another class of problems wherein it would be natural to develop implicit constitutive theories, though seldom resorted to, are models for bodies that are...

Extended irreversible thermodynamics in hypoelasticity

Sebastiano Giambò, Annunziata Palumbo (1988)

Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Classe di Scienze Fisiche, Matematiche e Naturali. Rendiconti Lincei. Matematica e Applicazioni

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The constitutive equations of rate type for a class of thermo-hypo-elastic materials are derived within the framework of the extended irreversible thermodynamics.