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We consider a viscoelastic body occupying a smooth bounded domain of $R^3$ under the effects of volumic traction forces. Inertial effects are considered: hence, the equation describing the evolution of displacements is of the second order…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-07-22 Riccardo Scala , Giulio Schimperna

We present a newly developed approach for the calculation of interfacial stiffness and contact area evolution between two rough bodies exhibiting self affine surface structures. Using spline assisted discretization to define localised…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-06-04 Dorian Hanaor , Yixiang Gan , Itai Einav

We introduce a spectral parameter into the geometrically exact Hamiltonian equations for the elastic rod in a way that creates a Lax pair. This assures integrability and permits application of the inverse scattering transform solution…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2007-05-23 Yaoming Shi , W. M. McClain , J. E. Hearst

The simulation of multi-body systems with frictional contacts is a fundamental tool for many fields, such as robotics, computer graphics, and mechanics. Hard frictional contacts are particularly troublesome to simulate because they make the…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-04-19 Bilal Hammoud , Luca Olivieri , Ludovic Righetti , Justin Carpentier , Andrea Del Prete

We study the axisymmetric impact of a rigid sphere onto an elastic membrane theoretically and experimentally. We derive governing equations from first principles and impose natural kinematic and geometric constraints for the coupled motion…

Classical Physics · Physics 2023-01-19 Elvis A. Agüero , Luke Alventosa , Daniel M. Harris , Carlos A. Galeano-Rios

In this note, we consider a Robin-type traction problem for a linearly elastic body occupying an infinite periodically perforated domain. After proving the uniqueness of the solution we use periodic elastic layer potentials to show that the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2022-08-05 Matteo Dalla Riva , Gennady Mishuris , Paolo Musolino

Elastic contact in hydrodynamic environments is a complex multiphysics phenomenon and can be found in applications ranging from engineering to biological systems. Understanding the intricacies of this coupled problem requires the…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2024-09-17 Biswajeet Rath , Xiaoyu Mao , Rajeev K. Jaiman

Electrical and elasticity imaging are promising modalities for a suite of different applications including medical tomography, non-destructive testing, and structural health monitoring. These emerging modalities are capable of providing…

Medical Physics · Physics 2021-05-18 Andreas Hauptmann , Danny Smyl

This paper presents a half-analytical elastic solution convenient for parametric studies of 2D cracked pavements. The pavement structure is reduced to three elastic and homogeneous equivalent layers resting on a soil. In a similar way than…

Materials Science · Physics 2017-08-18 Hanan Nasser , Armelle Chabot

If a contact of two purely elastic bodies with no sliding (infinite coefficient of friction) is subjected to superimposed oscillations in the normal and tangential directions, then a specific damping appears, that is not dependent on…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-12-29 M. Popov , V. L. Popov , R. Pohrt

The dip-coating geometry, where a solid plate is withdrawn from or plunged into a liquid pool, offers a prototypical example of wetting flows involving contact-line motion. Such flows are commonly studied using the lubrication approximation…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-20 Minkush Kansal , Charu Datt , Vincent Bertin , Jacco H. Snoeijer

In this paper we consider and generalize a model, recently proposed and analytically investigated in its quasi-stationary approximation by the authors, for visco-elasticity with large deformations and conditional compatibility, where the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2024-03-14 Abramo Agosti , Michel Fremond

We develop an exact operator formulation for the dynamic interaction between a finite circular elastic plate and an elastic half-space. Classical analyses, beginning with Lamb's representation of the half-space response, typically assume an…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Greyson Meares , Sage Meiling , Charis Tsikkou

The inverse problem is studied in multi-body systems with nonlinear dynamics representing, e.g., phase-locked wave systems, standard multimode and random lasers. Using a general model for four-body interacting complex-valued variables we…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2017-08-01 Alessia Marruzzo , Payal Tyagi , Fabrizio Antenucci , Andrea Pagnani , Luca Leuzzi

This article's main scope is the presentation of a computational method for the simulation of contact problems within the finite element method involving complex and rough surfaces. The approach relies on the MPJR (eMbedded Profile for…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-03 Jacopo Bonari , Marco Paggi , Daniele Dini

Obtaining meaningful solutions for inverse problems has been a major challenge with many applications in science and engineering. Recent machine learning techniques based on proximal and diffusion-based methods have shown promising results.…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Moshe Eliasof , Eldad Haber , Eran Treister

Inverse design of slender elastic structures underlies a wide range of applications in computer graphics, flexible electronics, biomedical devices, and soft robotics. Traditional optimization-based approaches, however, are often orders of…

Graphics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Jiahao Li , Mingchao Liu , Haiyi Liang , HengAn Wu , Weicheng Huang

We propose a novel and efficient lifting approach for the optimal control of rigid-body systems with contacts to improve the convergence properties of Newton-type methods. To relax the high nonlinearity, we consider the state, acceleration,…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2022-10-25 Sotaro Katayama , Toshiyuki Ohtsuka

The exact solution of a two-dimensional (2D) Ising model with the next nearest interactions at zero magnetic field is derived. At first, the transfer matrices are analyzed in three representations, i.e., Clifford algebraic representation,…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2026-05-29 Zhidong Zhang