...Thomas Collas; Frédéric Lebon; Iulian Rosu; Caroline Goutal; Corado Ningre Purpose The purpose of this study is to gain a better understanding of conical frictional assembly and also provide an analytical model of the bond that enables the phenomena identified by a finite element model (FEM...

...Wujiu Pan; Xiaopeng Li; Xue Wang Purpose The purpose of this paper is to provide a static friction coefficient prediction model of rough contact surfaces based on the contact mechanics analysis of elastic-plastic fractal surfaces. Design/methodology/approach In this paper, the continuous...

...Min Zhang; Dongzhuo Wang Purpose This paper aims to study the seismic response of frame structure with friction dampers. Design/methodology/approach The state equation of the structure subjected to the earthquake is presented and solved, from which the maximum drift and the interlayer drift...

.... The purpose of this paper is to obtain a better agreement with the experimental behavior by presenting a 3D generalized rigid particle contact model based on a multiple contact point formulation, which allows moment transmission and includes in a straightforward manner the effect of friction at the contact...

...Dejan Brkić Purpose The Colebrook equation for determination of hydraulic resistances is implicit in fluid flow friction factor and hence it has to be approximately solved using iterative procedure or using some of the approximate explicit formulas developed by many authors. The purpose...

... for the contact, material and mechanical models to simulate the dynamic and static behaviour of cohesionless polyethylene pellets. Methods to determine quantifiable single particle parameters such as static friction and the coefficient of restitution have been highlighted. Numerical and experimental granular pile...

... is applied based on a large deformation formulation, powder plasticity behavior, and frictional contact algorithm. A Lagrangian finite element formulation is employed for large powder deformations. A cap plasticity model is used in numerical simulation of nonlinear powder behavior. The influence of powder...

...Antonio Munjiza; Jiansheng Xiang; Antonio Munjiza; John‐Paul Latham; Romain Guises Purpose As particulate systems evolve, sliding, rolling and collision contacts all produce forces that discrete element method (DEM) methods aim to predict. Verification of friction rarely takes high priority...

...E.S. Mistakidis; N.P. Politis In this paper, the effect of the FE discretization density on the results of both convex and nonconvex‐nonsmooth frictional contact and adhesive contact interface problems is investigated. The tool for this study is a variational formulation leading to an iterative...

...E.S. Mistakidis; O.K. Panagouli In this paper, the influence of fractal interface geometry to the evolution of the friction mechanism is studied. The paper is based on fractal approaches for the modeling of the multiscale self‐affine topography of these interfaces. More specifically...

...T. Huemer; W.N. Liu; J. Eberhardsteiner; H.A. Mang The frictional behavior of rubber materials on various contact surfaces is strongly affected by the contact pressure and the relative sliding velocity as well as the environmental temperature. Based on a great number of experiments of rubber blocks...

...Claude Blanzé; Laurent Champaney; Pierre Vedrine This paper focuses on the design of a superconducting quadrupole prototype. This structure includes many frictional contact zones, and the loading conditions are complex (mechanical, thermal and magnetic). A dedicated computational strategy, based...

...T. Angelov; A. Nedev An isothermal, steady‐state, hot‐strip rolling problem for rigid‐plastic, strain rate sensitive and incompressible materials with coulomb‐siebel friction contact conditions is considered. The corresponding penalty variational statement is given and a convergent finite element...

...Wenhua Ling; Henryk K. Stolarski Some frictional contact problems are characterized by significant variations in the location and size of the contact area occurring in the process of deformation. When this feature is combined with strongly non‐linear, path‐dependent material behaviour, difficulties...

...C. Blanze; L. Champaney; J.‐Y. Cognard; P. Ladevèze Presents a modular method for obtaining either a quick or a precise calculation for three‐dimensional structure assemblies with local non‐linearities, such as unilateral contact with friction, or technological components, such as prestressed bolt...

... regularized friction constitutive models. In this paper, the process is extended to elastoplastic models. Finally, we propose a self acting procedure with contact algorithms (interiority, sliding and contact loss) and related subroutines for implementation in finite element framework. We illustrate...