Inverse statics of plates and shells with frictional contact

Participants : Florence Bertails-Descoubes, Romain Casati, Gilles Daviet.

We pursued our work on the static inversion of thin elastic shells, in the presence of contact and friction with an external object. We have shown how to formulate draping as a local constrained minimization problem, and we have generalized the adjoint method to this constrained case. These new results are included in Romain Casati's PhD thesis, defended in June 2015, and will be part of a paper to be submitted in 2016.