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Accurately handling contact with friction remains a core bottleneck for Material Point Method (MPM), from reliable contact point detection to enforcing frictional contact laws (non-penetration, Coulomb friction, and maximum dissipation…
A multiscale (micro-to-macro) analysis is proposed for the prediction of the finite strain behavior of composites with hyperelastic constituents and embedded localized damage. The composites are assumed to possess periodic microstructure…
In this paper, we employ a global aggregate subgradient method for the numerical solution of hemivariational inequality problems arising in contact mechanics. The method integrates a global search procedure to identify starting points for a…
This work presents a Boundary Element Method (BEM) formulation for contactless electromagnetic field assessments. The new scheme is based on a regularized BEM approach that requires the use of electric measurements only. The regularization…
In this work we consider the hybrid Data-Driven Computational Mechanics (DDCM) approach, in which a smooth constitutive manifold is reconstructed to obtain a well-behaved nonlinear optimization problem (NLP) rather than the much harder…
The current dominant paradigm for robotic manipulation involves two separate stages: manipulator design and control. Because the robot's morphology and how it can be controlled are intimately linked, joint optimization of design and control…
In this paper we present an abstract nonsmooth optimization problem for which we recall existence and uniqueness results. We show a numerical scheme to approximate its solution. The theory is later applied to a sample static contact problem…
Finite element methods are used to study non-adhesive, frictionless contact between elastic solids with self-affine surfaces. We find that the total contact area rises linearly with load at small loads. The mean pressure in the contact…
Cut finite element method (CutFEM) based approaches towards challenging fluid-structure interaction (FSI) are proposed. The different considered methods combine the advantages of competing novel Eulerian (fixed-grid) and established…
We present a domain decomposition formulation based on hybridization which is inspired by hybridized discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) methods, that enhance mixed domain decomposition methods by incorporating stabilization terms. Unlike…
In this work, we employ the Constraint Energy Minimizing Generalized Multiscale Finite Element Method (CEM-GMsFEM) to solve the problem of linear heterogeneous poroelasticity with coefficients of high contrast. The proposed method makes use…
We develop non-overlapping domain decomposition methods for the Biot system of poroelasticity in a mixed form. The solid deformation is modeled with a mixed three-field formulation with weak stress symmetry. The fluid flow is modeled with a…
This work develops and analyzes a variational-monolithic unfitted finite element formulation of a linear fluid-structure interaction problem in Eulerian coordinates with a fixed interface. The overall discretization is based on a backward…
This paper addresses optimal design problems governed by multi-state stationary diffusion equations, aiming at the simultaneous optimization of the domain shape and the distribution of two isotropic materials in prescribed proportions.…
In ecological studies of pattern formation, models of the competitive-diffusion type are generally singularly perturbed, and the numerical approximation of such models is challenging. In this paper, we present finite element discretization…
We develop a multipoint stress mixed finite element method for linear elasticity with weak stress symmetry on quadrilateral grids, which can be reduced to a symmetric and positive definite cell centered system. The method is developed on…
In this paper, we construct and analyze a multiscale (finite element) method for parabolic problems with heterogeneous dynamic boundary conditions. As origin, we consider a reformulation of the system in order to decouple the discretization…
We develop a family of expanded mixed Multiscale Finite Element Methods (MsFEMs) and their hybridizations for second-order elliptic equations. This formulation expands the standard mixed Multiscale Finite Element formulation in the sense…
In this paper, we construct a combined multiscale finite element method (MsFEM) using the Local Orthogonal Decomposition (LOD) technique to solve the multiscale problems which may have singularities in some special portions of the…