Giorgio Zavarise

TL;DR: The mathematical structure of the contact formulation for finite element methods is derived on the basis of a continuum description of contact, and several algorithms related to spatial contact search and fulfillment of the inequality constraints at the contact interface are discussed.

TL;DR: In this article, a mortar-based approach is presented to treat the contact constraints, whereby the discretization of the continuum is performed with arbitrary order NURBS, as well as C0-continuous Lagrange polynomial elements for comparison purposes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed the continuation of the MEG experiment to search for the charged lepton flavour violating decay (cLFV) \mu \to e \gamma, based on an upgrade of the experiment, which aims for a sensitivity enhancement of one order of magnitude compared to the final MEG result, down to the $6 \times 10^{-14}$ level.

TL;DR: In this article, NURBS-based isogeometric analysis is applied to 3D frictionless large deformation contact problems, where the contact constraints are treated with a mortar-based approach combined with a simplified integration method avoiding segmentation of the contact surfaces, and the discretization of the continuum is performed with arbitrary order nurBS and Lagrange polynomial elements.

TL;DR: In this article, a thermomechanically coupled contact element is presented which accounts for the real microscopic shape of the surfaces, the microscopic mechanism of force transmission and heat exchange, and the macroscopic related stiffnesses are calculated and continuously updated taking into account changes in significant parameters.