Selected Research Topics
- Tribological effects with large deformations
- 3D friction models (Coulomb, etc.)
- 3D wear models (Archard, etc.)
- Variationally consistent formulations
- Modeling of thermomechanical contacts
- Elastohydrodynamics (EHD contact)
- Adhesive contact
- Multi-scale modeling of surface roughness
- General nonlinear interface material laws
- Multihpysics coupling at interfaces
- and many more...
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Key Publications
- Seitz, A., Wall, W.A., Popp, A. (2018): A computational approach for thermo-elasto-plastic frictional contact based on a monolithic formulation employing non-smooth nonlinear complementarity functions, Advanced Modeling and Simulation in Engineering Sciences, 5:5, DOI (Open Access)
- Farah, P., Wall, W.A., Popp, A. (2017): An implicit finite wear contact formulation based on dual mortar methods, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 111:325-353
- Seitz, A., Popp, A., Wall, W.A. (2015): A semi-smooth Newton method for orthotropic plasticity and frictional contact at finite strains, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 285:228-254