@inbook{17ad60323d8a47b9b7753758ae5fe071,
title = "3D beam-to-beam contact within coupled electromechanical fields: A finite element model",
abstract = "In this paper a 3D beam-to-beam contact element is presented, to deal with contact problems in the coupled electric - mechanical fields. The beams are supposed to get in contact in a pointwise manner, the detection of the contact points and the computation of all contributions are carried out using a fully symmetric treatment of the two beams. Concerning the mechanical field, Hertz theory of contact for elastic bodies is considered. The contact area is varying according to the beamto- beam angle, being circular only in the case of perpendicular beams. This variation of the shape is taken into account too. The problem is semi-coupled: the mechanical field influences the electric one because of the dependence of the voltage distribution on the contact area.",
author = "Boso, {D. P.} and Przemyslaw Litewka and Schrefler, {B. A.} and P. Wriggers",
year = "2006",
doi = "10.1007/3-540-31761-9_12",
language = "English (US)",
isbn = "3540317600",
series = "Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics",
number = "27",
pages = "103--110",
editor = "Peter Wriggers and Udo Nackenhost",
booktitle = "Analysis and Simulation of Contact Problems",
edition = "27",
}