• An isogeometric collocation method for frictionless contact of Cosserat rods 

      Weeger, Oliver; Narayanan, Bharath; De Lorenzis, Laura; Kiendl, Josef; Dunn, Martin L. (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)
      A frictionless contact formulation for spatial rods is developed within the framework of isogeometric collocation. The structural mechanics is described by the Cosserat theory of geometrically nonlinear spatial rods. The ...