| Prof. Dr. Roger A. Sauer | |
 | Ruhr University Bochum Institute for Structural Mechanics IC / 6 / 185 Universitätsstraße 150 44801 Bochum Email: roger.sauer@rub.de Tel: 0234 / 32-29051 download vCard |
| Since 04/2024 | W3 Professor of Civil Engineering at Ruhr University Bochum |
| Since 10/2020 | Professor of Civil Engineering at Gdansk University of Technology |
| 10/2019 – 09/2020 | Visiting Professor at UC Berkeley, IIT Kanpur, and Gdansk University of Technology |
| 07/2019 – 12/2023 | Associated Research Group Leader at AICES, RWTH Aachen University |
| 07/2014 – 06/2019 | untenured W2 Professor of Mechanical Engineering at RWTH Aachen University |
| 01/2010 – 06/2019 | Research Group Leader at the Graduate School AICES, RWTH Aachen University |
| 04/2007 – 12/2009 | Post-Doc. and Junior Research Group Leader in Mechanical Engineering, Leibniz University Hanover |
| 08/2002 – 12/2006 | Master- and doctoral studies, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 10/1996 – 04/2002 | Study of Civil Engineering, University of Karlsruhe (now KIT), Germany |
Publications | |
| 2026 | |
| [ 1 ] | Bartłomiej Łazorczyk; Roger A. Sauer Nonlinear elastodynamic material identification of heterogeneous isogeometric Bernoulli–Euler beams 2026 [ DOI ] |
| [ 2 ] | Gourav Yadav; Aningi Mokhalingam; Roger A. Sauer; Shakti S. Gupta Investigating the sliding behavior of graphene nanoribbons 2026 [ DOI ] |
| [ 3 ] | Michael Miro; Alexander Grosse‐Kreul; Swantje Pieplow; Julius Fründt; Ernst Niederleithinger; David Sanio; Sven Simon; Roger Sauer; Günther Meschke; Peter Mark, et al. Reuse of Existing Reinforced Concrete Elements – Automated Fine Processing, Connection Designs, and Quality Assurance 2026 [ DOI ] |
| 2025 | |
| [ 4 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Zou, Z.; Hughes, T.J.R. A simple and efficient hybrid discretization approach to alleviate membrane locking in isogeometric thin shells 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 5 ] | Duong, T.X.; Roohbakhshan, F.; Sauer, R.A. A new rotation-free isogeometric thin shell formulation and a corresponding continuity constraint for patch boundaries 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 6 ] | Sauer, R.A. A curvilinear surface ALE formulation for self-evolving Navier-Stokes manifolds – General theory and analytical solutions 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 7 ] | A. Borković; M.H. Gfrerer; R.A. Sauer New analytical laws and applications of interaction potentials with a focus on van der Waals attraction Applied Mathematical Modelling, 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 8 ] | Sauer, R.A. A curvilinear surface ALE formulation for self-evolving Navier-Stokes manifolds – Stabilized finite element formulation 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 9 ] | Bartłomiej Łazorczyk; Roger A. Sauer Material Identification of Heterogeneous Isogeometric Bernoulli–Euler Beams With Pretensioning 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 10 ] | Łazorczyk, B.; Sauer, R.A. Nonlinear elastodynamic material identification of heterogeneous isogeometric Bernoulli–Euler beams 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 11 ] | Llanos, E.H.; Choi, M.-J.; Sauer, R.A.; Corves, B.; Huesing, M.; Klinkel, S.; Saxena, A. 3D Capsule Compliant Gripper Based on Shape Optimization for Surgical Manipulation: Enhancing Precision in Lymph Node Isolation 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 12 ] | Thang X. Duong; Roger A. Sauer A finite strain model for fiber angle plasticity of textile fabrics based on isogeometric shell finite elements Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 13 ] | Borković, A.; Gfrerer, M.H.; Sauer, R.A.; Marussig, B. Efficient snap-to-contact computations for van der Waals interacting fibers 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 14 ] | Choi, M.-J.; Klinkel, S.; Klarmann, S.; Sauer, R.A. An objective isogeometric mixed finite element formulation for nonlinear elastodynamic beams with incompatible warping strains 2025 [ DOI ] |
| [ 15 ] | Yadav, G.; Mokhalingam, A.; Sauer, R.A.; Gupta, S.S. Investigating the sliding behavior of graphene nanoribbons 2025 [ DOI ] |
| 2024 | |
| [ 16 ] | A. Borković; M.H. Gfrerer; R.A. Sauer; B. Marussig; T.Q. Bui A novel section–section potential for short-range interactions between plane beams Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2024-09 [ DOI ] |
| [ 17 ] | Roger A. Sauer; Zhihui Zou; Thomas J.R. Hughes A simple and efficient hybrid discretization approach to alleviate membrane locking in isogeometric thin shells Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2024-05 [ DOI ] |
| [ 18 ] | Aningi Mokhalingam; Shakti S. Gupta; Roger A. Sauer Continuum contact model for friction between graphene sheets that accounts for surface anisotropy and curvature Physical Review B, 2024-01-29 [ DOI ] |
| [ 19 ] | Duong, T.X.; Itskov, M.; Sauer, R.A. Response to David Steigmann’s discussion of our paper 2024 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 20 ] | Duong, T.X.; Itskov, M.; Sauer, R.A. Response to David Steigmann's discussion of our paper 2024 [ DOI ] |
| [ 21 ] | Borković, A.; Gfrerer, M.H.; Sauer, R.A. On analytical integration of interaction potentials between cylindrical and rectangular bodies with a focus on van der Waals attraction 2024 [ DOI ] |
| [ 22 ] | Kumar, P.; Sauer, R.A.; Saxena, A. Topology optimization of contact-aided compliant mechanisms for tracing multi-kink paths 2024 [ DOI ] |
| [ 23 ] | Choi, M.-J.; Klinkel, S.; Klarmann, S.; Sauer, R.A. An objective isogeometric mixed finite element formulation for nonlinear elastodynamic beams with incompatible warping strains 2024 [ DOI ] |
| [ 24 ] | Llanos, E.H.; Choi, M.-J.; Sauer, R.A.; Corves, B.; Huesing, M.; Klinkel, S.; Saxena, A. 3D CAPSULE COMPLIANT GRIPPER BASED ON SHAPE OPTIMIZATION FOR SURGICAL MANIPULATION: ENHANCING PRECISION IN LYMPH NODE ISOLATION 2024 [ DOI ] |
| [ 25 ] | Borković, A.; Gfrerer, M.H.; Sauer, R.A.; Marussig, B.; Bui, T.Q. A novel section-section potential for short-range interactions between plane beams 2024 [ DOI ] |
| [ 26 ] | Duong, T.X.; Sauer, R.A. A finite strain model for fiber angle plasticity of textile fabrics based on isogeometric shell finite elements 2024 [ DOI ] |
| 2023 | |
| [ 27 ] | Eshwar J. Savitha; Roger A. Sauer A new anisotropic bending model for nonlinear shells: Comparison with existing models and isogeometric finite element implementation International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2023-04 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 28 ] | Myung-Jin Choi; Sven Klinkel; Roger A. Sauer An isogeometric frictionless beam‐to‐beam contact formulation for hyperelastic Cosserat rods with unconstrained directors RWTH Aachen University, 2023 [ DOI ] |
| [ 29 ] | Myung-Jin Choi; Roger A. Sauer; Sven Klinkel A selectively reduced degree basis for efficient mixed nonlinear isogeometric beam formulations with extensible directors Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2023-12 [ DOI ] |
| [ 30 ] | Hériveaux, Y.; Le Cann, S.; Immel, K.; Vennat, E.; Nguyen, V.-H.; Brailovski, V.; Karasinski, P.; Sauer, R.A.; Haïat, G. Debonding of coin-shaped osseointegrated implants: Coupling of experimental and numerical approaches 2023 [ DOI ] |
| [ 31 ] | Choi, M.-J.; Klinkel, S.; Sauer, R.A. Correction: An isogeometric finite element formulation for frictionless contact of Cosserat rods with unconstrained directors (Computational Mechanics, (2022), 70, 6, (1107-1144), 10.1007/s00466-022-02223-5) 2023 [ DOI ] |
| [ 32 ] | Xuan Thang Duong; Vu Ngoc Khiêm; Mikhail Itskov; Roger A. Sauer A general theory for anisotropic Kirchhoff-Love shells with in-plane bending of embedded fibers RWTH Aachen University, 2023 [ DOI ] |
| [ 33 ] | Mokhalingam, A.; Gupta, S.S.; Sauer, R.A. A continuum contact model for friction between graphene sheets that accounts for surface anisotropy and curvature 2023 [ DOI ] |
| [ 34 ] | Choi, M.-J.; Sauer, R.A.; Klinkel, S. A selectively reduced degree basis for efficient mixed nonlinear isogeometric beam formulations with extensible directors 2023 [ DOI ] |
| [ 35 ] | Maziyar Bazmara; Roger A Sauer; Ashutosh Agrawal Biomimetic torene shells Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 2023-08 [ DOI ] |
| [ 36 ] | Maximilian Harmel; Roger A. Sauer New hybrid quadrature schemes for weakly singular kernels applied to isogeometric boundary elements for 3D Stokes flow Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 2023-08 [ DOI ] |
| [ 37 ] | Saipraneeth Gouravaraju; Jyotindra Narayan; Roger A. Sauer; Sachin Singh Gautam A Bayesian regularization-backpropagation neural network model for peeling computations The Journal of Adhesion, 2023-01-02 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 38 ] | Thang X Duong; Vu N Khiêm; Mikhail Itskov; Roger A Sauer A general theory for anisotropic Kirchhoff–Love shells with in-plane bending of embedded fibers Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 2023-05 [ DOI ] |
| [ 39 ] | Katharina Immel; Vu-Hieu Nguyen; Guillaume Haïat; Roger A. Sauer Modeling the debonding process of osseointegrated implants due to coupled adhesion and friction Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 2023-02 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| 2022 | |
| [ 40 ] | Shirazian, F.; Sauer, R.A. A new efficient ab-initio approach for calculating the bending stiffness of 2D materials 2022 [ DOI ] |
| [ 41 ] | Paul, K.; Hughes, T.J.R.; Landis, C.M.; Sauer, R.A. Dynamic Fracture of Brittle Shells in a Space-Time Adaptive Isogeometric Phase Field Framework 2022 [ DOI ] |
| [ 42 ] | Hughes, T.J.R.; Zou, Z.; Scott, M.A.; Sauer, R.A.; Savitha, E.J. Galerkin Formulations with Greville Quadrature Rules for Isogeometric Shell Analysis: Higher Order Elements and Locking 2022 [ DOI ] |
| [ 43 ] | Karsten Paul; Roger A. Sauer An isogeometric finite element formulation for boundary and shell viscoelasticity based on a multiplicative surface deformation split International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2022-11-30 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 44 ] | Thang X. Duong; Mikhail Itskov; Roger A. Sauer A general isogeometric finite element formulation for rotation‐free shells with in‐plane bending of embedded fibers International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2022-07-30 [ DOI ] |
| [ 45 ] | Roger A. Sauer; Thang X. Duong; Kranthi K. Mandadapu A chemo-mechano-thermodynamical contact theory for adhesion, friction, and (de)bonding reactions Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 2022-04 [ DOI ] |
| [ 46 ] | Paul, K.; Sauer, R.A. An isogeometric finite element formulation for boundary and shell viscoelasticity based on a multiplicative surface deformation split arXiv, 2022 [ DOI ] |
| [ 47 ] | Philipp Quenzel; Hauke Kröger; Boris Manin; Khiêm Ngoc Vu; Thang Xuan Duong; Thomas Gries; Mikhail Itskov; Roger A. Sauer Material characterisation of biaxial glass-fibre non-crimp fabrics as a function of ply orientation, stitch pattern, stitch length and stitch tension Journal of Composite Materials, 2022-11 [ DOI ] |
| [ 48 ] | Bartosz Borzeszkowski; Izabela Lubowiecka; Roger A. Sauer Nonlinear material identification of heterogeneous isogeometric Kirchhoff–Love shells Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022-02 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 49 ] | Harmel, M.; Sauer, R.A. New hybrid quadrature schemes for weakly singular kernels applied to isogeometric boundary elements for 3D Stokes flow arXiv, 2022 [ DOI ] |
| [ 50 ] | Choi, M.-J.; Klinkel, S.; Sauer, R.A. An isogeometric finite element formulation for frictionless contact of Cosserat rods with unconstrained directors Computational Mechanics, 2022 [ DOI ] |
| [ 51 ] | Choi, M.-J.; Klinkel, S.; Sauer, R.A. An isogeometric finite element formulation for frictionless contact of Cosserat rods with unconstrained directors arXiv, 2022 [ DOI ] |
| [ 52 ] | Zou, Z.; Hughes, T.J.R.; Scott, M.A.; Miao, D.; Sauer, R.A. Efficient and robust quadratures for isogeometric analysis: Reduced Gauss and Gauss–Greville rules Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2022 [ DOI ] |
| 2021 | |
| [ 53 ] | Kumar, P.; Sauer, R.A.; Saxena, A. On topology optimization of large deformation contact-aided shape morphing compliant mechanisms Mechanism and Machine Theory, 2021 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 54 ] | Borzeszkowski, B.; Lubowiecka, I.; Sauer, R.A. Nonlinear material identification of heterogeneous isogeometric Kirchhoff-Love shells arXiv, 2021 [ DOI ] |
| [ 55 ] | Borzeszkowski, B.; Duong, T.X.; Sauer, R.A.; Lubowiecka, I. Isogeometric Shell Analysis of the Human Abdominal Wall Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2021 [ DOI ] |
| [ 56 ] | Myung-Jin Choi; Roger A. Sauer; Sven Klinkel An isogeometric finite element formulation for geometrically exact Timoshenko beams with extensible directors Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2021-11 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 57 ] | Katharina Immel; Vu-Hieu Nguyen; Arnaud Dubory; Charles-Henri Flouzat–Lachaniette; Roger A. Sauer; Guillaume Haïat Determinants of the primary stability of cementless acetabular cup implants: A 3D finite element study Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2021-08 [ DOI ] |
| [ 58 ] | Z. Zou; T.J.R. Hughes; M.A. Scott; R.A. Sauer; E.J. Savitha Galerkin formulations of isogeometric shell analysis: Alleviating locking with Greville quadratures and higher-order elements Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2021-07 [ DOI ] |
| [ 59 ] | Gouravaraju, S.; Sauer, R.A.; Gautam, S.S. Investigating the normal and tangential peeling behaviour of gecko spatulae using a coupled adhesion-friction model Journal of Adhesion, 2021 [ DOI ] |
| [ 60 ] | Gouravaraju, S.; Sauer, R.A.; Gautam, S.S. On the presence of a critical detachment angle in gecko spatula peeling - a numerical investigation using an adhesive friction model Journal of Adhesion, 2021 [ DOI ] |
| [ 61 ] | Mergel, J.C.; Scheibert, J.; Sauer, R.A. Contact with coupled adhesion and friction: Computational framework, applications, and new insights Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 2021 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 62 ] | Duong, T.X.; Itskov, M.; Sauer, R.A. A general isogeometric finite element formulation for rotation-free shells with embedded fibers and in-plane bending arXiv, 2021 [ DOI ] |
| 2020 | |
| [ 63 ] | Gouravaraju, S.; Narayan, J.; Sauer, R.A.; Gautam, S.S. A Bayesian regularization-backpropagation neural network model for peeling computations arXiv, 2020 [ DOI ] |
| [ 64 ] | Duong, T.X.; Khiêm, V.N.; Itskov, M.; Sauer, R.A. A general theory for anisotropic Kirchhoff-Love shells with embedded fibers and in-plane bending arXiv, 2020 [ DOI ] |
| [ 65 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Duong, T.X.; Mandadapu, K.K. A chemo-mechano-thermodynamical contact theory for adhesion, friction and (de)bonding reactions arXiv, 2020 [ DOI ] |
| [ 66 ] | Ghaffari, R.; Sauer, R.A. A nonlinear thermomechanical formulation for anisotropic volume and surface continua Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 2020 [ DOI ] |
| [ 67 ] | Choia, M.-J.; Sauer, R.A.; Klinkel, S. An isogeometric finite element formulation for geometrically exact Timoshenko beams with extensible directors arXiv, 2020 [ DOI ] |
| [ 68 ] | Amaresh Sahu; Yannick A.D. Omar; Roger A. Sauer; Kranthi K. Mandadapu Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian finite element method for curved and deforming surfaces Journal of Computational Physics, 2020-04 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 69 ] | Karsten Paul; Christopher Zimmermann; Kranthi K. Mandadapu; Thomas J. R. Hughes; Chad M. Landis; Roger A. Sauer An adaptive space-time phase field formulation for dynamic fracture of brittle shells based on LR NURBS Computational Mechanics, 2020-04-21 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 70 ] | Katharina Immel; Thang X. Duong; Vu-Hieu Nguyen; Guillaume Haïat; Roger A. Sauer A modified Coulomb’s law for the tangential debonding of osseointegrated implants Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 2020-06-08 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 71 ] | Karsten Paul; Christopher Zimmermann; Thang X. Duong; Roger A. Sauer Isogeometric continuity constraints for multi-patch shells governed by fourth-order deformation and phase field models Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2020-10 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 72 ] | Gouravaraju, S.; Sauer, R.A.; Gautam, S.S. On the presence of a critical detachment angle in gecko spatula peeling - A numerical investigation using an adhesive friction model arXiv, 2020 [ DOI ] |
| [ 73 ] | Kumar, P.; Sauer, R.A.; Saxena, A. On topology optimization of large deformation contact-aided shape morphing compliant mechanisms arXiv, 2020 [ DOI ] |
| [ 74 ] | Omar, Y.A.D.; Sahu, A.; Sauer, R.A.; Mandadapu, K.K. Nonaxisymmetric Shapes of Biological Membranes from Locally Induced Curvature Biophysical Journal, 2020 [ DOI ] |
| [ 75 ] | Paul, K.; Zimmermann, C.; Duong, T.X.; Sauer, R.A. Isogeometric continuity constraints for multi-patch shells governed by fourth-order deformation and phase field models arXiv, 2020 [ DOI ] |
| [ 76 ] | Mergel, J.C.; Scheibert, J.; Sauer, R.A. Contact with coupled adhesion and friction: Computational framework, applications, and new insights arXiv, 2020 [ DOI ] |
| [ 77 ] | Mokhalingam, A.; Ghaffari, R.; Sauer, R.A.; Gupta, S.S. Comparing quantum, molecular and continuum models for graphene at large deformations Carbon, 2020 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| 2019 | |
| [ 78 ] | Giovanni Della Puppa; Roger A. Sauer; Martin Trautz A Unified Representation of Folded Surfaces via Fourier Series Nexus Network Journal, 2019-12 [ DOI ] |
| [ 79 ] | Roger A. Sauer; Reza Ghaffari; Anurag Gupta The multiplicative deformation split for shells with application to growth, chemical swelling, thermoelasticity, viscoelasticity and elastoplasticity International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2019-11 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 80 ] | Reza Ghaffari; Farzad Shirazian; Ming Hu; Roger A. Sauer A nonlinear hyperelasticity model for single layer blue phosphorus based on ab initio calculations Proceedings of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 2019-09-27 [ DOI ] |
| [ 81 ] | Christopher Zimmermann; Deepesh Toshniwal; Chad M. Landis; Thomas J.R. Hughes; Kranthi K. Mandadapu; Roger A. Sauer An isogeometric finite element formulation for phase transitions on deforming surfaces Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2019-07 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 82 ] | Janine C. Mergel; Riad Sahli; Julien Scheibert; Roger A. Sauer Continuum contact models for coupled adhesion and friction The Journal of Adhesion, 2019-10-15 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 83 ] | Duong, T.X.; Sauer, R.A. A concise frictional contact formulation based on surface potentials and isogeometric discretization Computational Mechanics, 2019 [ DOI ] |
| [ 84 ] | Vu-Bac, N.; Duong, T.X.; Lahmer, T.; Areias, P.; Sauer, R.A.; Park, H.S.; Rabczuk, T. A NURBS-based inverse analysis of thermal expansion induced morphing of thin shells Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2019 [ DOI ] |
| [ 85 ] | Vu-Bac, N.; Duong, T.X.; Lahmer, T.; Zhuang, X.; Sauer, R.A.; Park, H.S.; Rabczuk, T. A NURBS-based inverse analysis for reconstruction of nonlinear deformations of thin shell structures arXiv, 2019 [ DOI ] |
| [ 86 ] | Immel, K.; Duong, T.X.; Nguyen, V.-H.; Haïat, G.; Sauer, R.A. A modified Coulomb’s law for the tangential debonding of osseointegrated implants arXiv, 2019 [ DOI ] |
| [ 87 ] | Roohbakhshan, F.; Sauer, R.A. A finite membrane element formulation for surfactants Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2019 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 88 ] | Duong, T.X.; De Lorenzis, L.; Sauer, R.A. A segmentation-free isogeometric extended mortar contact method Computational Mechanics, 2019 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 89 ] | Ghaffari, R.; Shirazian, F.; Hu, M.; Sauer, R.A. A nonlinear hyperelasticity model for single layer blue phosphorus based on ab-initio calculations arXiv, 2019 [ DOI ] |
| [ 90 ] | Paul, K.; Zimmermann, C.; Mandadapu, K.K.; Hughes, T.J.R.; Landis, C.M.; Sauer, R.A. An adaptive space-time phase field formulation for dynamic fracture of brittle shells based on LR NURBS arXiv, 2019 [ DOI ] |
| [ 91 ] | Omar, Y.A.D.; Sahu, A.; Sauer, R.A.; Mandadapu, K.K. Non-axisymmetric shapes of biological membranes from locally induced curvature bioRxiv, 2019 [ DOI ] |
| [ 92 ] | Kumar, P.; Saxena, A.; Sauer, R.A. Computational synthesis of large deformation compliant mechanisms undergoing self and mutual contact Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, 2019 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 93 ] | Mokhalingam, A.; Ghaffari, R.; Sauer, R.A.; Gupta, S.S. Comparing quantum, molecular and continuum models for graphene at large deformations arXiv, 2019 [ DOI ] |
| [ 94 ] | Gouravaraju, S.; Sauer, R.A.; Gautam, S.S. Investigating the normal and tangential peeling behaviour of gecko spatulae using a coupled adhesion-friction model arXiv, 2019 [ DOI ] |
| 2018 | |
| [ 95 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Ghaffari, R.; Gupta, A. The multiplicative deformation split for shells with application to growth, chemical swelling, thermoelasticity, viscoelasticity and elastoplasticity arXiv, 2018 [ DOI ] |
| [ 96 ] | Roger A. Sauer; Tobias Luginsland A monolithic fluid–structure interaction formulation for solid and liquid membranes including free-surface contact Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2018-11 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 97 ] | Ghaffari, R.; Sauer, R.A. Modal analysis of graphene-based structures for large deformations, contact and material nonlinearities Journal of Sound and Vibration, 2018 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 98 ] | Roohbakhshan, F.; Duong, T.X.; Sauer, R.A. Isogeometric kirchhoff-love shells: Numerics, constitution and biomechanical applications Shell Structures: Theory and Applications Volume 4 - Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Shell Structures: Theory and Applications, SSTA 2017, 2018 [ DOI ] |
| [ 99 ] | Mergel, J.C.; Sahli, R.; Scheibert, J.; Sauer, R.A. Continuum contact models for coupled adhesion and friction arXiv, 2018 [ DOI ] |
| [ 100 ] | Reza Ghaffari; Roger A. Sauer A new efficient hyperelastic finite element model for graphene and its application to carbon nanotubes and nanocones Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 2018-07 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 101 ] | N. Vu-Bac; T.X. Duong; T. Lahmer; X. Zhuang; R.A. Sauer; H.S. Park; T. Rabczuk A NURBS-based inverse analysis for reconstruction of nonlinear deformations of thin shell structures Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2018-04 [ DOI ] |
| [ 102 ] | Roohbakhshan, F.; Sauer, R. Simulation of angioplasty using isogeometric laminated composite shell elements Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2018 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 103 ] | Harmel, M.; Rajski, M.P.; Sauer, R. Desingularization in boundary element analysis of three-dimensional Stokes flow Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2018 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 104 ] | Reza Ghaffari; Thang X. Duong; Roger A. Sauer A new shell formulation for graphene structures based on existing ab-initio data International Journal of Solids and Structures, 2018-03 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 105 ] | Kumar, P.; Saxen, A.; Sauer, R.A. Computational synthesis of large deformation compliant mechanisms undergoing self and mutual contact arXiv, 2018 [ DOI ] |
| [ 106 ] | Sauer, R.A. On the computational modeling of lipid bilayers using thin-shell theory CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures, 2018 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 107 ] | Sahu, A.; Omar, Y.A.D.; Sauer, R.A.; Mandadapu, K.K. Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian finite element method for curved and deforming surfaces I. General theory and application to fluid interfaces arXiv, 2018 [ DOI ] |
| [ 108 ] | Duong, T.X.; Sauer, R.A. A concise frictional contact formulation based on surface potentials and isogeometric discretization arXiv, 2018 [ DOI ] |
| [ 109 ] | Roohbakhshan, F.; Sauer, R.A. A finite membrane element formulation for surfactants arXiv, 2018 [ DOI ] |
| [ 110 ] | Ghaffari, R.; Sauer, R.A. A new efcient hyperelastic fnite element model for graphene and its application to carbon nanotubes and nanocones arXiv, 2018 [ DOI ] |
| 2017 | |
| [ 111 ] | Harmel, M.; Sauer, R. Boundary element and finite element analysis for the efficient simulation of fluid-structure interaction and its application to mold filling processes Proceedings in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, 2017 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 112 ] | Harmel, M.; Sauer, R.A. Efficient three-dimensional simulation of fused deposition modeling by coupling finite element and boundary element analysis Simulation for Additive Manufacturing 2017, Sinam 2017, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 113 ] | Kumar, P.; Saxena, A.; Sauer, R.A. Implementation of self contact in path generating compliant mechanisms Mechanisms and Machine Science, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 114 ] | Ghaffari, R.; Sauer, R.A. Modal analysis of graphene-based structures for large deformations, contact and material nonlinearities arXiv, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 115 ] | Harmel, M.; Sauer, R.A.; Bommes, D. Volumetric mesh generation from T-spline surface representations CAD Computer Aided Design, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 116 ] | Sahu, A.; Sauer, R.A.; Mandadapu, K.K. Irreversible thermodynamics of curved lipid membranes Physical Review E, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 117 ] | Zimmermann, C.; Sauer, R.A. Adaptive local surface refinement based on LR NURBS and its application to contact arXiv, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 118 ] | Rasool, R.; Harmel, M.; Sauer, R.A. A strategy to interface isogeometric analysis with Lagrangian finite elements - Application to uid-structure interaction problems arXiv, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 119 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Duong, T.X.; Mandadapu, K.K.; Steigmann, D.J. A stabilized finite element formulation for liquid shells and its application to lipid bilayers Journal of Computational Physics, 2017 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 120 ] | Zimmermann, C.; Sauer, R.A. Adaptive local surface refinement based on LR NURBS and its application to contact Computational Mechanics, 2017 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 121 ] | Zimmermann, C.; Toshniwal, D.; Landis, C.M.; Hughes, T.J.R.; Mandadapu, K.K.; Sauer, R.A. An isogeometric finite element formulation for phase transitions on deforming surfaces arXiv, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 122 ] | Mergel, J.C.; Sauer, R.A.; Ober-Blöbaum, S. C1-continuous space-time discretization based on Hamilton's law of varying action ZAMM Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 123 ] | Duong, T.X.; de Lorenzis, L.; Sauer, R.A. A segmentation-free isogeometric extended mortar contact method arXiv, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 124 ] | Duong, T.X.; Roohbakhshan, F.; Sauer, R.A. A new rotation-free isogeometric thin shell formulation and a corresponding continuity constraint for patch boundaries Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 125 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Luginsland, T. A monolithic uid-structure interaction formulation for solid and liquid membranes including free-surface contact arXiv, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| [ 126 ] | Roohbakhshan, F.; Sauer, R.A. Efficient isogeometric thin shell formulations for soft biological materials Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 2017 [ DOI ] [ arXiv ] |
| [ 127 ] | Luginsland, T.; Sauer, R.A. A computational study of wetting on chemically contaminated substrates Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2017 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 128 ] | Sahu, A.; Sauer, R.A.; Mandadapu, K.K. The irreversible thermodynamics of curved lipid membranes arXiv, 2017 [ DOI ] |
| 2016 | |
| [ 129 ] | Rasool, R.; Corbett, C.J.; Sauer, R.A. A strategy to interface isogeometric analysis with Lagrangian finite elements-Application to incompressible flow problems Computers and Fluids, 2016 [ DOI ] |
| [ 130 ] | Sauer, R.A. A Survey of Computational Models for Adhesion Journal of Adhesion, 2016 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 131 ] | Kumar, P.; Sauer, R.A.; Saxena, A. Synthesis of C0 Path-Generating Contact-Aided Compliant Mechanisms Using the Material Mask Overlay Method Journal of Mechanical Design, Transactions of the ASME, 2016 [ DOI ] |
| [ 132 ] | Roger A. Sauer A frictional sliding algorithm for liquid droplets Computational Mechanics, 2016-12 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| 2015 | |
| [ 133 ] | Muhammad Osman; Roger A. Sauer Computational Analysis of Wetting on Hydrophobic Surfaces: Application to Self-Cleaning Mechanisms Advances in Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion, 2015-09 [ DOI ] |
| [ 134 ] | Corbett, C.J.; Sauer, R.A. Three-dimensional isogeometrically enriched finite elements for frictional contact and mixed-mode debonding Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2015 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 135 ] | Kumar, P.; Sauer, R.A.; Saxena, A. On synthesis of contact aided compliant mechanisms using the material mask overlay method Proceedings of the ASME Design Engineering Technical Conference, 2015 [ DOI ] |
| [ 136 ] | R. A. Sauer; T. X. Duong On the theoretical foundations of thin solid and liquid shells Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 2015-06-13 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 137 ] | Sauer, R.A.; DeLorenzis, L. An unbiased computational contact formulation for 3D friction International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2015 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 138 ] | Roohbakhshan, F.; Duong, T.X.; Sauer, R.A. A projection method to extract biological membrane models from 3D material models Journal of the Mechanical Behavior of Biomedical Materials, 2015-09-03 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 139 ] | Schmidt, M.G.; Ismail, A.E.; Sauer, R.A. A continuum mechanical surrogate model for atomic beam structures International Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, 2015 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 140 ] | Raste, H.; Saxena, A.; Sauer, R.; Corves, B. Bioinspired mechanism synthesis for flapping flight with unsteady flow effects Mechanisms and Machine Science, 2015 [ DOI ] |
| [ 141 ] | Osman, M.; Sauer, R.A. Computational Analysis of Wetting on Hydrophobic Surfaces: Application to Self-Cleaning Mechanisms Advances in Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion, 2015 [ DOI ] |
| 2014 | |
| [ 142 ] | Schmidt, M.G.; Sauer, R.A.; Ismail, A.E. Multiscale treatment of mechanical contact problems involving thin polymeric layers Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, 2014 [ DOI ] |
| [ 143 ] | Corbett, C.J.; Sauer, R.A. NURBS-enriched contact finite elements Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2014 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 144 ] | Thang X. Duong; Roger A. Sauer An accurate quadrature technique for the contact boundary in 3D finite element computations Comput Mech, 2014-11-06 [ DOI ] |
| [ 145 ] | Mergel, J.C.; Sauer, R.A.; Saxena, A. Computational optimization of adhesive microstructures based on a nonlinear beam formulation Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 2014-03-26 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 146 ] | Sauer, R.A. Stabilized finite element formulations for liquid membranes and their application to droplet contact International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 2014-02-24 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 147 ] | Osman, M.; Sauer, R.A. A parametric study of the hydrophobicity of rough surfaces based on finite element computations Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects, 2014 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 148 ] | Sauer, R.A. A contact theory for surface tension driven systems Mathematics and Mechanics of Solids, 2014-01-05 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 149 ] | Gautam, S.S.; Sauer, R.A. A composite time integration scheme for dynamic adhesion and its application to gecko spatula peeling International Journal of Computational Methods, 2014 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 150 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Duong, T.X.; Corbett, C.J. A computational formulation for constrained solid and liquid membranes considering isogeometric finite elements Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2014 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 151 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Mergel, J.C. A geometrically exact finite beam element formulation for thin film adhesion and debonding Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 2014 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 152 ] | Sauer, R.A. Advances in the computational modeling of the gecko adhesion mechanism Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 2014 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| 2013 | |
| [ 153 ] | Raheel Rasool; Muhammad Osman; Roger A. Sauer Computational Modeling of Liquid Droplets Moving on Rough Surfaces Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., 2013-11 [ DOI ] |
| [ 154 ] | Muhammad Osman; Raheel Rasool; Roger A. Sauer Computational Aspects of Self-Cleaning Surface Mechanisms Advances in Contact Angle, Wettability and Adhesion, 2013-08-09 [ DOI ] |
| [ 155 ] | Saxena, A.; Sauer, R. Combined gradient-stochastic optimization with negative circular masks for large deformation topologies International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2013 [ DOI ] |
| [ 156 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Holl, M. A detailed 3D finite element analysis of the peeling behaviour of a gecko spatula Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2013 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 157 ] | Sauer, R.A.; De Lorenzis, L. A computational contact formulation based on surface potentials Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2013 [ DOI ] |
| [ 158 ] | Mergel, J.C.; Sauer, R.A. On the optimum shape of thin adhesive strips for various peeling directions Journal of Adhesion, 2013-08-30 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 159 ] | Gautam, S.S.; Sauer, R.A. An energy-momentum-conserving temporal discretization scheme for adhesive contact problems International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2013 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| 2012 | |
| [ 160 ] | Raheel Rasool; Roger A. Sauer; Muhammad Osman Internal Flow Analysis for Slow Moving Small Droplets in Contact with Hydrophobic Surfaces Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., 2012 [ DOI ] |
| [ 161 ] | Sauer, R.A. Local finite element enrichment strategies for 2D contact computations and a corresponding post-processing scheme Computational Mechanics, 2012-10-18 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 162 ] | Sauer, R.A. Computational contact formulations for soft body adhesion Advances in Soft Matter Mechanics, 2012 [ DOI ] |
| 2011 | |
| [ 163 ] | Sauer, R.A. Enriched contact finite elements for stable peeling computations International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2011 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 164 ] | Muhammad Osman; Roger A. Sauer A Two-Dimensional Computational Droplet Contact Model Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., 2011 [ DOI ] |
| [ 165 ] | Sauer, R.A. The peeling behavior of thin films with finite bending stiffness and the implications on gecko adhesion Journal of Adhesion, 2011 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 166 ] | Sauer, R.A. Challenges in computational nanoscale contact mechanics Recent Developments and Innovative Applications in Computational Mechanics, 2011 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| 2010 | |
| [ 167 ] | Sauer, R.A. A computational model for nanoscale adhesion between deformable solids and its application to gecko adhesion Journal of Adhesion Science and Technology, 2010 [ DOI ] |
| [ 168 ] | Muhammad Osman; Roger A. Sauer Mechanical Modeling of Particle-Droplet Interaction Motivated by the Study of Self-Cleaning Mechanisms Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., 2010-11 [ DOI ] |
| 2009 | |
| [ 169 ] | Sauer, R.A. A finite element seta model for studying Gecko adhesion ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings, 2009 [ DOI ] |
| [ 170 ] | Roger A. Sauer A three-dimensional multiscale finite element model describing the adhesion of a gecko seta Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., 2009 [ DOI ] |
| [ 171 ] | Sauer, R.A. Multiscale modelling and simulation of the deformation and adhesion of a single gecko seta Computer Methods in Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, 2009 [ DOI ] [ PDF ] |
| [ 172 ] | Roger Sauer A computational contact model for nanoscale rubber adhesion Constitutive Models for Rubber VI, 2009-09 [ DOI ] |
| [ 173 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Wriggers, P. Formulation and analysis of a three-dimensional finite element implementation for adhesive contact at the nanoscale Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 2009 [ DOI ] |
| 2008 | |
| [ 174 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Wang, G.; Li, S. The composite Eshelby tensors and their applications to homogenization Acta Mechanica, 2008 [ DOI ] |
| [ 175 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Li, S. An atomistically enriched continuum model for nanoscale contact mechanics and its application to contact scaling Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 2008 [ DOI ] |
| [ 176 ] | Roger A. Sauer An atomic interaction-based rod formulation for modelling Gecko adhesion Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., 2008 [ DOI ] |
| 2007 | |
| [ 177 ] | Li, S.; Wang, G.; Sauer, R.A. The eshelby tensors in a finite spherical domain - Part II: Applications to homogenization Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME, 2007 [ DOI ] |
| [ 178 ] | Li, S.; Sauer, R.A.; Wang, G. The eshelby tensors in a finite spherical domain - Part I: Theoretical formulations Journal of Applied Mechanics, Transactions ASME, 2007 [ DOI ] |
| [ 179 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Li, S. A contact mechanics model for quasi-continua International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2007 [ DOI ] |
| [ 180 ] | Sauer, R.A.; Li, S. An atomic interaction-based continuum model for adhesive contact mechanics Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, 2007 [ DOI ] |
| [ 181 ] | Roger A. Sauer; Shaofan Li An atomic interaction-based continuum model for computational multiscale contact mechanics Proc. Appl. Math. Mech., 2007 [ DOI ] |
| 2005 | |
| [ 182 ] | Li, S.; Sauer, R.; Wang, G. A circular inclusion in a finite domain I. The Dirichlet-Eshelby problem Acta Mechanica, 2005 [ DOI ] |
| [ 183 ] | Wang, G.; Li, S.; Sauer, R. A circular inclusion in a finite domain II. The Neumann-Eshelby problem Acta Mechanica, 2005 [ DOI ] |