Abstract Background Soft, biological, and bio-inspired materials are often compositionally heterogeneous structurally anisotropic, they frequently feature graded or layered organizations. This design complexity enables exceptional ranges in properties performance yet complicates a fundamental understanding of the contact mechanics. Recent studies soft gel layers have relied on Hertzian Winkler ...

Ultra high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) is a material commonly used in total hip and knee joint replacements. Numerous studies have assessed the effect of its viscoelastic properties on phenomena such as creep, stress relaxation, and tensile stress. However, these investigations either use the complex 3D geometries of total hip and knee replacements or UHMWPE test objects on their own...

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effect of bicycle pedal design on the mechanics of the patellofemoral joint. Previous research determined that for certain riders the non-driving varus and internal knee moments could be reduced by switching from fixed to free floating pedals (Ruby and Hull, 1993). It was postulated that the presence of varus and internal knee moments during fixed pedal...

A model is developed in this work to predict the thermal contact resistance of carbon nanotube (CNT) array interfaces with CNT arrays synthesized directly on substrate surfaces. An analytical model for contact mechanics is first developed in conjunction with prior data from load–displacement experiments to predict the real contact area established in CNT array interfaces as a function of applie...

In part I of this work, we study adhesionless contact of a long rectangular elastic membrane with a rigid substrate. Our model is based on finite strain theory and is valid for arbitrarily large deformations. Both frictionless and no-slip contact conditions are considered. Exact closed form solutions are obtained for frictionless contact. For small contact, the differences between these two con...

We present an efficient model order reduction method [1] for parametrized elliptic variational inequalities of the first kind: find u ∈ K such that: a(u, v − u;μ) ≥ f(v − u;μ), ∀v ∈ K(μ) where K(μ) := {v ∈ H1(Ω)|Bv ≤ g(μ)}. Motivated by numerous engineering applications that involve contact between elastic body and rigid obstacle, e.g. the obstacle problem [2], we develop a primaldual reduced b...