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3D beam-to-beam contact within coupled electromechanical fields: a finite element model

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Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics ((LNACM,volume 27))

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In this paper a 3D beam-to-beam contact element is presented, to deal with contact problems in the coupled electric - mechanical fields. The beams are supposed to get in contact in a pointwise manner, the detection of the contact points and the computation of all contributions are carried out using a fully symmetric treatment of the two beams. Concerning the mechanical field, Hertz theory of contact for elastic bodies is considered. The contact area is varying according to the beamto- beam angle, being circular only in the case of perpendicular beams. This variation of the shape is taken into account too. The problem is semi-coupled: the mechanical field influences the electric one because of the dependence of the voltage distribution on the contact area.

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  1. Department of Structural and Transportation Engineering, University of Padua, Via Marzolo 9, Padua, 35131, Italy

    D.P. Boso & B.A. Schrefler1

  2. Institute of Structural Engineering, Poznan University of Technology, ul. Piotrowo 5, Poznañ, PL 60-965, Poland

    P. Litewka & P. Wriggers

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  1. Institute of Mechanics and Computational Mechanics, University of Hannover, Appelstr. 9A, Hannover, 30167, Germany

    Peter Wriggers Professor Dr.

  2. Institute of Mechanics and Computational Mechanics, University of Hannover, Appelstr. 9A, Hannover, 30167, Germany

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Boso, D., Litewka, P., Schrefler1, B., Wriggers, P. (2006). 3D beam-to-beam contact within coupled electromechanical fields: a finite element model. In: Wriggers, P., Nackenhorst, U. (eds) Analysis and Simulation of Contact Problems. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, vol 27. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-31761-9_12

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