2 papers
cs.CE2025
Data-Driven Surrogate Modeling Techniques to Predict the Effective Contact Area of Rough Surface Contact Problems
Tarik Sahin, Jacopo Bonari, Sebastian Brandstaeter +1
The effective contact area in rough surface contact plays a critical role in multi-physics phenomena such as wear, sealing, and thermal or electrical conduction. Although accurate…
cs.CE2024
Physics-Informed Neural Networks for Solving Contact Problems in Three Dimensions
Tarik Sahin, Daniel Wolff, Alexander Popp
This paper explores the application of physics-informed neural networks (PINNs) to tackle forward problems in 3D contact mechanics, focusing on small deformation elasticity. We uti…