3D coupled multifield magneto-electro-elastic contact modelling
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Author(s)
Rodriguez-Tembleque, L
Buroni, FC
Saez, A
Aliabadi, MH
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
The present work deals with the general contact problem for coupled magneto-electro-elastic materials. Despite of the relevant technological applications, this topic of research has been treated only in some analytical works. But analytical solutions lack the generality of numerical methodologies, being restricted typically to simple geometries, loading conditions, idealized contact conditions and mostly taking into account transversely isotropic material symmetry with the symmetry axis normal to the contact surface. In this work, a numerical procedure for the three-dimensional frictional contact modelling of anisotropic coupled magneto-electro-elastic materials in presence of both electric and magnetic fields is presented for the first time. An orthotropic frictional law is considered, so anisotropy is present both in the bulk and in the surface. The methodology uses the boundary element method with explicit evaluation of the fundamental solutions in order to compute the magneto-electro-elastic influence coefficients. The contact model is based on an augmented Lagrangian formulation and it uses an iterative Uzawa scheme of resolution. Conducting, semi-conducting and insulated electric and/or magnetic indentation conditions, as well as orthotropic frictional contact conditions are considered. The methodology is validated by comparison with benchmark analytical solutions. Then, additional exploration examples are presented and discussed in detail, revealing that magneto-electric material coupling, conductivity contact conditions lead to a significant effect on the indentation force and contact pressure distributions. The influence of friction in electric and magnetic potential responses has been also proved to be very significant. Moreover, tangential loads exhibit an important influence both on the maximum values of the electric and magnetic potentials as well as on their distributions.
Date Issued
2016-05-13
Date Acceptance
2016-05-12
Citation
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences, 2016, 114, pp.35-51
ISSN
1879-2162
Publisher
Elsevier
Start Page
35
End Page
51
Journal / Book Title
International Journal of Mechanical Sciences
Volume
114
Copyright Statement
© 2016 Elsevier. Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
Subjects
Science & Technology
Technology
Engineering, Mechanical
Mechanics
Engineering
Multifield contact
Contact mechanics
Magneto-electro-elastic materials
Friction
Indentation
Boundary element method
ELLIPTIC HERTZIAN CONTACT
FRICTIONAL CONTACT
RIGID PUNCH
PIEZOELECTRIC MATERIALS
COMPOSITE-MATERIALS
NUMERICAL-SOLUTION
ROUGH SURFACES
HALF-PLANE
INDENTATION
RESISTANCE
Mechanical Engineering & Transports
0910 Manufacturing Engineering
0905 Civil Engineering
0913 Mechanical Engineering
Publication Status
Published