An optimized material removal process
J.-F. Molinari & S. Pham-Ba
in Current Trends and Open Problems in Computational Mechanics
Published 15 March 2023
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Fig. 1 – Contact function made of metaballs
Abstract
We conduct boundary element simulations of a contact problem consisting of an elastic medium subject to tangential load. Using a particle swarm optimization algorithm, we find the optimal shape and location of the micro-contacts to maximize for a given load the stored elastic energy contributing to the removal of a spherical particle contained in between the micro-contacts. We propose an ice scream scoop as an application of this optimization process.
Keywords: wear, boundary element method, particle swarm optimization