Moving interfaces between media play an important role in technological and natural
processes. The development of methods for solving problems with moving interfaces is one …

The purpose of this work is to present a possible approach to the topology mass
minimization of a body submitted to local material failure constraints, contact boundary …

В технологических и природных процессах важную роль играют подвижные границы
раздела сред. Разработка методов решения задач с подвижными границами раздела …

Contact force optimization problems exist extensively in engineering. However, there are
few simple and universal methods to solve contact force optimization due to the high …

A nonparametric gradient-less shape optimization approach for finite element stress
minimization problems is presented. The shape optimization algorithm is based on …

Sponsored by the Technical Committee on Structural Design of the Technical Administrative
Committee on Analysis and Computation of the Technical Activities Division of the Structural …

This paper is devoted to shape optimization of constrained contact force problem. A linear
relaxation model of contact force-clearance relation is developed. It is shown that such …

Direct differentiation method of sensitivity analysis is developed for frictional contact
problems. As a result of the augmented Lagrangian treatment of contact constraints, the …