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A Fourier-accelerated volume integral method for elastoplastic contact

Frérot, Lucas  
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Bonnet, Marc
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Molinari, Jean-François  
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2019
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

The contact of solids with rough surfaces plays a fundamental role in physical phenomena such as friction, wear, sealing, and thermal transfer. However, its simulation is a challenging problem due to surface asperities covering a wide range of length-scales. In addition, non-linear local processes, such as plasticity, are expected to occur even at the lightest loads. In this context, robust and efficient computational approaches are required. We therefore present a novel numerical method, based on integral equations, capable of handling the large discretization requirements of real rough surfaces as well as the non-linear plastic flow occurring below and at the contacting asperities. This method is based on a new derivation of the Mindlin fundamental solution in Fourier space, which leverages the computational efficiency of the fast Fourier transform. The use of this Mindlin solution allows a dramatic reduction of the memory in-print (as the Fourier coefficients are computed on-the-fly), a reduction of the discretization error, and the exploitation of the structure of the functions to speed up computation of the integral operators. We validate our method against an elastic-plastic FEM Hertz normal contact simulation and showcase its ability to simulate contact of rough surfaces with plastic flow.

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research article
DOI
10.1016/j.cma.2019.04.006
ArXiv ID

1811.11558

Author(s)
Frérot, Lucas  
Bonnet, Marc
Molinari, Jean-François  
Anciaux, Guillaume  
Date Issued

2019

Published in
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Volume

351

Start page

951

End page

976

Subjects

volume integral equation

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Fourier

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plasticity

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contact

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Mindlin

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rough surface

Editorial or Peer reviewed

REVIEWED

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EPFL

EPFL units
LSMS  
FunderGrant Number

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162569oplastic

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1492149

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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.2613614
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February 18, 2019
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