On the modeling of contact/impact problems between rubber materials

Zhi-Qiang Feng (1) , Qichang He (2) , Benoit Magnain (1) , Jean-Michel Cros (1)

1 LMEE - Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Energétique d'Evry
2 Laboratoire de Mécanique

This work is concerned with the finite element modeling of contact/ impact problems between rubber materials. The developed algorithm, namely here Bi-First, combines the bi-potential method for solution of contact problems and the first order algorithm for integration of the time-discretized equation of motion. Numerical examples are given in two cases: multi-contact problem between Blatz-Ko hyperelastic bodies and Love-Laursen's test with a novel hyperelastic model.

Mots clés: Bi-potential method; Contact problem; Contact/Impact; First-order algorithms; Hyperelastic models; Numerical example; Rubber material; Time-discretized equation

Domaines: Mécanique [physics.med-ph]

Zhi-Qiang Feng, Qichang He, Benoit Magnain, Jean-Michel Cros. On the modeling of contact/impact problems between rubber materials. Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, 2006, 2006 (27), pp.87--94. ⟨10.1007/3-540-31761-9_10⟩. ⟨hal-01179017⟩