Large deformation Cohesive Damage Model through Contact Mechanics

Modifying the classical contact mechanics to provide a specific implementation of a mesh independent method for straightforward controlling of (non-linear) fracture mechanical processes using mixed-mode cohesive zone model (CZM) formulated in one contact structure, was the idea of this project which has been implemented using traditional Finite Element Method (FEM) and the accuracy of the results has been practically, analytically and experimentally validated. My areas of expertise in the field related to this project include as follows: Partial Differential Equations & Boundary Value Problems, Applied Mathematics, Functional Analysis, Dynamical Systems, Mathematical/numerical Modelling & Simulation in Mechanical Engineering and Advanced Computational Optimization Methods & Algorithms.