contact mechanics
Thematic session on Contact Mechanics @ ICTAM 2024
Dear Colleague,
we are organizing a thematic session on Contact Mechanics (SM02) at the 26th International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics (ICTAM), Daegu, Korea, August 25-30, 2024, www.ictam2024.org
The deadline for abstract submission is approaching: January 15, 2024.
We are also pleased to inform you that:
Gordon Conference on Adhesion - Late July 2023
The Gordon Research Conference on the Science of Adhesion is this summer (23-28 July 2023). The meeting will be held on the campus of Mount Holyoke College in western Massachusetts and will have more than 20 invited talks from world leaders in the fields of adhesion, soft matter, and materials. This is a great meeting for students and early career researchers to get connected to the community. Poster presentations are strongly encouraged from all participants, and poster abstracts can still be submitted.
Benchmarks for computation contact Mechanics. A collection of problems.
Dear colleagues,
I would like to draw your attention to a recent work we have been doing to set up a library of examples of discrete one-sided contact problems with Coulomb friction.
The collection of problems can be found here https://github.com/FrictionalContactLibrary/fclib-library and the C API for writing and listing these files here:
A comment on a hybrid asperity-Persson friction rubber theory by A Emami, S Khaleghian and S Taheri. Friction 9(6): 1707--1725 (2021)
dear collegues, I may be interested to share your views on an "asperity theory" modified Persson's rubber friction contact mechanics theory which I find not clearly motivated and seems to lead to erroneous conclusions ---- but I am also unable to reproduce the results claimed by the authors. The preprint is here, and the original paper attached: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/359392510
New book: Nonlinear Mechanics for Composite Heterogeneous Structures
Our new book in structural engineering and mechanics is released!
Georgios Drosopoulos, Georgios Stavroulakis,
Nonlinear Mechanics for Composite Heterogeneous Structures, CRC Press, 2022
Electrical contact resistance and its dependence on applied pressure
The relationships between surface roughness, contact pressure and contact resistance are studied in this work published three years ago.
It is imporant to distinguish between the different conduction mechanisms acting at contacts at different scales, in order to better understand how surface structure and surface chemistry can alter the behaviour of electrical contacts
1 PhD position in Real time Solid Mechanics & 3D Printing - Marie Curie ITN project Meditate - ESR03
1 Early Stage Researcher (ESR) PhD position in biomechanics offered within the framework of the project MeDiTATe (The medical digital twin for aneurysm prevention and treatment) funded by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) Innovative Training Networks (ITN) with Grant Agreement No. 859836. MeDiTATe is a European Industrial Doctorate (EID).
Contact stiffness of rough surfaces
Contact stiffness of multiscale surfaces by truncation analysis
In this concise piece of work, an effective method is shown to gain new understandings into the role of surface structure in the field of contact mechanics. In particular, normal contact stiffness is correlated to parameters of surfaces' fractal dimension and amplitude.
Post-Doc position in “Computational Soft Contact Mechanics”
-- Please email your statement of interest/motivation letter and CV to Prof. Michele Scaraggi, michele.scaraggi [at] iit.it (michele[dot]scaraggi[at]iit[dot]it) --
Short INFO: We are looking for highly motivated, proactive and talented candidates with backgrounds in (any of the following) computational contact mechanics, fluid dynamics, modelling and simulation of interface mechanics, applied mathematics, or related areas.