Identification of Stresses in Heterogeneous Contact Models

Description

While the impact of mechanical loading of articular cartilage on the onset and progression of osteoarthritis is well known, the actual mechanisms of this connection remain unclear. One reason is that in-vivo measurements of the stress and strain distribution within the cartilage are currently impossible for common motions.

This project aims at estimating stress distributions in knee cartilate from gait data, by coupling a multibody model of the lower limb to a finite element model of the knee. The inverse problem leads to a large optimization problem with nonsmooth contact mechanics as equality constraint. For its solution, we investigate affine covariant composite step methods with an augmented Lagrangian relaxation of the contact constraints. For the latter, we develop a matching multigrid with overlapping QP smoothers.

Publications

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Preprints

Anton Schiela, Matthias Stöcklein, Martin Weiser: A Primal Dual Projection Algorithm for Efficient Constraint Preconditioning (SPP1962-159, 03/2021, [bib])

Members

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    Prof. Georg Duda

    Julius Wolff Institute for Biomechanics and Musculoskeletal Regeneration
    Principal Investigator
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    Prof. Anton Schiela

    Universität Bayreuth
    Principal Investigator
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    Dr. Martin Weiser

    Zuse Institute Berlin
    Principal Investigator
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    Felix Baumann

    Zuse Institute Berlin
    Research Assistant

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