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ContactEngineering / topobank-contact

This is a plugin for "topobank" providing functions for contact mechanics.
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contact mechanics between two uploaded surfaces #17

Open lthimons opened 5 years ago

lthimons commented 5 years ago

It might be nice to allow the user to select two topographies in their library and run the contact calculations between them. When I have done this in the past, I first added them together in matlab, but uploading these "combined" surfaces becomes tedious and a user might be left with a complicated pile of combined surfaces that aren't totally useful.

mcrot commented 5 years ago

So contact mechanics between surfaces can be achieved by just performing the existing calculation on the sum of the heights of two topographies? Maybe we could introduce "virtual topographies" resulting from an operation (like "sum") of other topographies. These would not result in extra data but would be generated on demand of needed.

If we'd want to combine any two topographies we would need some kind of alignment because there maybe differing dimensions/sizes.

mcrot commented 3 years ago

We discussed this today. With the current UI and database backend this could be implemented by some kind of "filter" (also see ContactEngineering/topobank#323), which generates a new topography from two given topographies. Then an analysis could be applied on this combined topography.