MIRCO (MUSAM-IMCS Rough Contact cOde)

MIRCO is a Boundary element algorithm for simulating linear elastic frictionless normal contact between a rigid rough indentor and an elastic half-space. The research code is implemented throughout in object-oriented programming (C++) and is parallelized with OpenMP for shared memory hardware architectures.

Getting up and running

Prerequesites

MIRCO requires

• C++ compiler
• CMake (version: >= 3.14)
• OpenMP
• Trilinos (version: >= 12.8)

Clone the repository

You can clone the repository along with its submodules using:

cd <someBaseDir>
mkdir <sourceDir>
git clone --recursive https://github.com/imcs-compsim/MIRCO.git <sourceDir>

where <someBaseDir> is some directory in your machine and <sourceDir> will contain the MIRCO source code.

If you have already cloned the repository using:

git clone https://github.com/imcs-compsim/MIRCO.git <sourceDir>

you can pull the submodules using:

cd <sourceDir>
git submodule update --init --recursive

To update the submodules, you can use the following command from your source directory:

git submodule update --recursive --remote

Configure and build the code

To create an out-of-source build, first create a build directory using:

cd <someBaseDir>
mkdir <buildDir>

where <buildDir> is the build directory.

Note: The exact location of <buildDir> is arbitrary, as long as it is not a subdirectory of <sourceDir>.

Now, you have to navigate to the build directory and call the do-configure script in order to invoke cmake:

cd <buildDir>
<sourceDir>/do-configure

IMPORTANT Make sure to set Trilinos_DIR to point to you Trilinos installation.

Build the mirco executable in the build directory using:

cd <buildDir>
make -j <numProc>

with <numProc> specifying the number of processes used for compilation. The mirco executable will be created in the build directory.

Run all tests

You can run the tests from the build directory using:

ctest

Run the code

To run the code with an input file, use the following command in your build directory:

./mirco <sourceDir>/Input/<someInputFile.xml>

where <someInputFile.xml> is any input file in the prescribed format.

How to cite MIRCO?

If you are using this code, please cite the following paper:

• J. Bonari, M. R. Marulli, N. Hagmeyer, M. Mayr, A. Popp, M. Paggi: A multi-scale FEM-BEM formulation for contact mechanics between rough surfaces, Computational Mechanics, 65(3):731-749, 2020, DOI: 10.1007/s00466-019-01791-3

  @article{Bonari2020a,
     author = {Bonari, Jacopo and Marulli, Maria Rosaria and Hagmeyer, Nora and Mayr, Matthias and Popp, Alexander and Paggi, Marco},
     doi = {10.1007/s00466-019-01791-3},
     issue = {3},
     journal = {Computational Mechanics},
     pages = {731--749},
     title = {{A multi-scale FEM-BEM formulation for contact mechanics between rough surfaces}},
     url = {https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-019-01791-3},
     volume = {65},
     year = {2020}}