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11 papers

cs.CE2026

Contact-based inverse analysis for nonlinear material identification in spatially heterogeneous solids

Bartłomiej Łazorczyk, Roger A. Sauer

This study presents a contact-based isogeometric Finite Element Model Updating (FEMU) framework for identifying spatially varying constitutive parameters of nonlinear solids. The f…

cs.CE2026

A coupled finite element formulation for chemo-mechano-thermodynamical contact and its application to bonding and debonding

Roger A. Sauer

This work presents a finite element formulation for coupled chemo-mechano-thermodynamical large deformation contact. The formulation is based on the contact theory of Sauer et al.…

physics.comp-ph2026

A survey of interlayer interaction models for graphene and other 2D materials

Gourav Yadav, Shakti S. Gupta, Roger A. Sauer

This work presents a survey of mechanical models describing van der Waals interactions between 2D materials, encompassing both continuous elastomer-like materials and discrete (cry…

cs.CE2025

Nonlinear elastodynamic material identification of heterogeneous isogeometric Bernoulli-Euler beams

Bartłomiej Łazorczyk, Roger A. Sauer

This paper presents a Finite Element Model Updating framework for identifying heterogeneous material distributions in planar Bernoulli-Euler beams based on a rotation-free isogeome…

physics.flu-dyn2025

A curvilinear surface ALE formulation for self-evolving Navier-Stokes manifolds - Stabilized finite element formulation

Roger A. Sauer

This work presents a stabilized finite element formulation of the arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) surface theory for Navier-Stokes flow on self-evolving manifolds developed in…

physics.comp-ph2025

Investigating the sliding behavior of graphene nanoribbons

Gourav Yadav, Aningi Mokhalingam, Roger A. Sauer +1

This work presents a Euler-Bernoulli beam finite element (FE) model to study the interlayer interaction mechanics of graphene nanoribbon (GNR) over a graphene substrate. The FE mod…