[HTML][HTML] Effect of fiber and bond strength variations on the tensile stiffness and strength of fiber networks

S Borodulina, HR Motamedian… - International Journal of …, 2018 - Elsevier
As fiber and bond characterization tools become more sophisticated, the information from
the fiber scale becomes richer. This information is used for benchmarking of different types …

[HTML][HTML] Geometrically exact beam elements and smooth contact schemes for the modeling of fiber-based materials and structures

C Meier, MJ Grill, WA Wall, A Popp - International Journal of Solids and …, 2018 - Elsevier
This work focuses on finite element formulations for the accurate modeling and efficient
simulation of the implicit dynamics of slender fiber-or rod-like components and their contact …

Geometrically exact finite element formulations for slender beams: Kirchhoff–Love theory versus Simo–Reissner theory

C Meier, A Popp, WA Wall - Archives of Computational Methods in …, 2019 - Springer
The present work focuses on geometrically exact finite elements for highly slender beams. It
aims at the proposal of novel formulations of Kirchhoff–Love type, a detailed review of …

Multibody dynamic modeling and analysis of cable-driven snake robot considering clearance and friction based on ALE method

P You, Z Liu, Z Ma - Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2023 - Elsevier
Cable-driven snake robot (CDSR) is a kind of slender manipulator with excellent
maneuverability, which is widely applied in complex spaces. However, several nonlinear …

A unified approach for beam-to-beam contact

C Meier, WA Wall, A Popp - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2017 - Elsevier
Existing beam contact formulations can be categorized in point-to-point contact models that
consider a discrete contact force at the closest point of the beams, and line-to-line contact …

[HTML][HTML] A contact description for continuum beams with deformable arbitrary cross-section

B Bozorgmehri, LP Obrezkov, AB Harish… - Finite Elements in …, 2023 - Elsevier
This work introduces a surface-to-surface contact description in the context of beam-to-beam
contact. The introduced contact description is formulated in the frame work of the absolute …

A nonsmooth method for spatial frictional contact dynamics of flexible multibody systems with large deformation

K Wang, Q Tian - … Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
A nonsmooth contact dynamics computation methodology for spatial frictional contact
dynamics of flexible multibody systems with large deformation is presented. The contact and …

A contact formulation using local frame of SE (3) group for corotational beam against rigid solid via moving signed distance field

P You, Z Liu, Z Ma - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and …, 2024 - Elsevier
In this paper, we present a contact formulation for corotational beam and rigid body based
on body-attached signed distance field (SDF). All formulations are based on the unified SE …

A mortar-type finite element approach for embedding 1D beams into 3D solid volumes

I Steinbrecher, M Mayr, MJ Grill, J Kremheller… - Computational …, 2020 - Springer
In this work we present a novel computational method for embedding arbitrary curved one-
dimensional (1D) fibers into three-dimensional (3D) solid volumes, as eg in fiber-reinforced …

A fully coupled regularized mortar‐type finite element approach for embedding one‐dimensional fibers into three‐dimensional fluid flow

N Hagmeyer, M Mayr, A Popp - International Journal for …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The present article proposes a partitioned Dirichlet‐Neumann algorithm, that allows to
address unique challenges arising from a novel mixed‐dimensional coupling of very slender …