TY - JOUR A1 - Zhao, Jun-Hua A1 - Guo, Wanlin A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - An analytical molecular mechanics model for the elastic properties of crystalline polyethylene JF - Journal of Applied Physics N2 - We present an analytical model to relate the elastic properties of crystalline polyethylene based on a molecular mechanics approach. Along the polymer chains direction, the united-atom (UA) CH2-CH2 bond stretching, angle bending potentials are replaced with equivalent Euler-Bernoulli beams. Between any two polymer chains, the explicit formulae are derived for the van der Waals interaction represented by the linear springs of different stiffness. Then, the nine independent elastic constants are evaluated systematically using the formulae. The analytical model is finally validated by present united-atom molecular dynamics (MD) simulations and against available all-atom molecular dynamics results in the literature. The established analytical model provides an efficient route for mechanical characterization of crystalline polymers and related materials. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4745035 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Wudtke, Idna ED - Gürlebeck, Klaus ED - Lahmer, Tom ED - Werner, Frank T1 - CONSTITUTIVE MODELING OF CRYSTALLINE MATERIALS WITH TEXTURE CHARACTERISTICS T2 - Digital Proceedings, International Conference on the Applications of Computer Science and Mathematics in Architecture and Civil Engineering : July 04 - 06 2012, Bauhaus-University Weimar N2 - The analysis of the response of complex structural systems requires the description of the material constitutive relations by means of an appropriate material model. The level of abstraction of such model may strongly affect the quality of the prognosis of the whole structure. In context to this fact, it is necessary to describe the material in a convenient sense as exact but as simple as possible. All material phenomena of crystalline materials e.g. steel, affecting the behavior of the structure, rely on physical effects which are interacting over spatial scales from subatomic to macroscopic range. Nevertheless, if the material is microscopically heterogenic, it might be appropriate to use phenomenological models for the purpose of civil engineering. Although constantly applied, these models are insufficient for steel materials with microscopic characteristics such as texture, typically occurring in hot rolled steel members or heat affected zones of welded joints. Hence, texture is manifested in crystalline materials as a regular crystallographic structure and crystallite orientation, influencing macroscopic material properties. The analysis of structural response of material with texture (e.g. rolled steel or heat affected zone of a welded joint) obliges the extension of the phenomenological material description of macroscopic scale by means of microscopic information. This paper introduces an enrichment approach for material models based on a hierarchical multiscale methodology. This has been done by describing the grain texture on a mesoscopic scale and coupling it with macroscopic constitutive relations by means of homogenization. Due to a variety of available homogenization methods, the question of an assessment of coupling quality arises. The applicability of the method and the effect of the coupling method on the reliability of the response are presented on an example. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170314-27910 UR - http://euklid.bauing.uni-weimar.de/ikm2012 SN - 1611-4086 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Thai, Chien H. A1 - Nguyen-Xuan, Hung A1 - Nguyen-Thanh, Nhon A1 - Le, T.H. A1 - Nguyen-Thoi, T. A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - Static, free vibration and buckling analysis of laminated composite Reissner-Mindlin plates using NURBS-based isogeometric approach JF - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering N2 - This paper presents a novel numerical procedure based on the framework of isogeometric analysis for static, free vibration, and buckling analysis of laminated composite plates using the first-order shear deformation theory. The isogeometric approach utilizes non-uniform rational B-splines to implement for the quadratic, cubic, and quartic elements. Shear locking problem still exists in the stiffness formulation, and hence, it can be significantly alleviated by a stabilization technique. Several numerical examples are presented to show the performance of the method, and the results obtained are compared with other available ones. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.4282 SP - 571 EP - 603 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Talebi, Hossein A1 - Zi, Goangseup A1 - Silani, Mohammad A1 - Samaniego, Esteban A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - A simple circular cell method for multilevel finite element analysis JF - Journal of Applied Mathematics N2 - A simple multiscale analysis framework for heterogeneous solids based on a computational homogenization technique is presented. The macroscopic strain is linked kinematically to the boundary displacement of a circular or spherical representative volume which contains the microscopic information of the material. The macroscopic stress is obtained from the energy principle between the macroscopic scale and the microscopic scale. This new method is applied to several standard examples to show its accuracy and consistency of the method proposed. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/526846 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Talebi, Hossein A1 - Samaniego, C. A1 - Samaniego, Esteban A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - On the numerical stability and mass-lumping schemes for explicit enriched meshfree methods JF - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering N2 - Meshfree methods (MMs) such as the element free Galerkin (EFG)method have gained popularity because of some advantages over other numerical methods such as the finite element method (FEM). A group of problems that have attracted a great deal of attention from the EFG method community includes the treatment of large deformations and dealing with strong discontinuities such as cracks. One efficient solution to model cracks is adding special enrichment functions to the standard shape functions such as extended FEM, within the FEM context, and the cracking particles method, based on EFG method. It is well known that explicit time integration in dynamic applications is conditionally stable. Furthermore, in enriched methods, the critical time step may tend to very small values leading to computationally expensive simulations. In this work, we study the stability of enriched MMs and propose two mass-lumping strategies. Then we show that the critical time step for enriched MMs based on lumped mass matrices is of the same order as the critical time step of MMs without enrichment. Moreover, we show that, in contrast to extended FEM, even with a consistent mass matrix, the critical time step does not vanish even when the crack directly crosses a node. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.3275 SP - 1009 EP - 1027 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Suzuki, Osamu A1 - Lawrynowicz, Julian A1 - Nouno, Kiyoharu A1 - Nagayama, Daiki ED - Gürlebeck, Klaus ED - Lahmer, Tom ED - Werner, Frank T1 - BINARY AND TERNARY CLIFFORD ANALYSIS ON NONION ALGEBRA AND SU(3) T2 - Digital Proceedings, International Conference on the Applications of Computer Science and Mathematics in Architecture and Civil Engineering : July 04 - 06 2012, Bauhaus-University Weimar N2 - A concept of non-commutative Galois extension is introduced and binary and ternary extensions are chosen. Non-commutative Galois extensions of Nonion algebra and su(3) are constructed. Then ternary and binary Clifford analysis are introduced for non-commutative Galois extensions and the corresponding Dirac operators are associated. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170314-27880 UR - http://euklid.bauing.uni-weimar.de/ikm2012 SN - 1611-4086 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Stutz, Henning A1 - Wuttke, Frank ED - Gürlebeck, Klaus ED - Lahmer, Tom ED - Werner, Frank T1 - EVALUATION OF SOIL-STRUCTURE INTERACTION MODELS USING DIFFERENT MODEL-ROBUSTNESS APPROACHES T2 - Digital Proceedings, International Conference on the Applications of Computer Science and Mathematics in Architecture and Civil Engineering : July 04 - 06 2012, Bauhaus-University Weimar N2 - The aim of this study is to show an application of model robustness measures for soilstructure interaction (henceforth written as SSI) models. Model robustness defines a measure for the ability of a model to provide useful model answers for input parameters which typically have a wide range in geotechnical engineering. The calculation of SSI is a major problem in geotechnical engineering. Several different models exist for the estimation of SSI. These can be separated into analytical, semi-analytical and numerical methods. This paper focuses on the numerical models of SSI specific macro-element type models and more advanced finite element method models using contact description as continuum or interface elements. A brief description of the models used is given in the paper. Following this description, the applied SSI problem is introduced. The observed event is a static loaded shallow foundation with an inclined load. The different partial models to consider the SSI effects are assessed using different robustness measures during numerical application. The paper shows the investigation of the capability to use these measures for the assessment of the model quality of SSI partial models. A variance based robustness and a mathematical robustness approaches are applied. These different robustness measures are used in a framework which allows also the investigation of computational time consuming models. Finally the result shows that the concept of using robustness approaches combined with other model–quality indicators (e.g. model sensitivity or model reliability) can lead to unique model–quality assessment for SSI models. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170314-27878 UR - http://euklid.bauing.uni-weimar.de/ikm2012 SN - 1611-4086 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Simsek, Yilmaz ED - Gürlebeck, Klaus ED - Lahmer, Tom ED - Werner, Frank T1 - ON INTERPOLATION FUNCTION OF THE BERNSTEIN POLYNOMIALS T2 - Digital Proceedings, International Conference on the Applications of Computer Science and Mathematics in Architecture and Civil Engineering : July 04 - 06 2012, Bauhaus-University Weimar N2 - The Bernstein polynomials are used for important applications in many branches of Mathematics and the other sciences, for instance, approximation theory, probability theory, statistic theory, num- ber theory, the solution of the di¤erential equations, numerical analysis, constructing Bezier curves, q-calculus, operator theory and applications in computer graphics. The Bernstein polynomials are used to construct Bezier curves. Bezier was an engineer with the Renault car company and set out in the early 1960’s to develop a curve formulation which would lend itself to shape design. Engineers may …nd it most understandable to think of Bezier curves in terms of the center of mass of a set of point masses. Therefore, in this paper, we study on generating functions and functional equations for these polynomials. By applying these functions, we investigate interpolation function and many properties of these polynomials. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170314-27867 UR - http://euklid.bauing.uni-weimar.de/ikm2012 SN - 1611-4086 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Simpson, R. A1 - Bordas, Stéphane Pierre Alain A1 - Trevelyan, J. A1 - Kerfriden, Pierre A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - An Isogeometric Boundary Element Method for elastostatic analysis JF - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering N2 - The concept of isogeometric analysis, where functions that are used to describe geometry in CAD software are used to approximate the unknown fields in numerical simulations, has received great attention in recent years. The method has the potential to have profound impact on engineering design, since the task of meshing, which in some cases can add significant overhead, has been circumvented. Much of the research effort has been focused on finite element implementations of the isogeometric concept, but at present, little has been seen on the application to the Boundary Element Method. The current paper proposes an Isogeometric Boundary Element Method (BEM), which we term IGABEM, applied to two-dimensional elastostatic problems using Non-Uniform Rational B-Splines (NURBS). We find it is a natural fit with the isogeometric concept since both the NURBS approximation and BEM deal with quantities entirely on the boundary. The method is verified against analytical solutions where it is seen that superior accuracies are achieved over a conventional quadratic isoparametric BEM implementation. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2011.08.008 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schmeikal, Bernd Anton ED - Gürlebeck, Klaus ED - Lahmer, Tom ED - Werner, Frank T1 - BAUHAUS ISOMETRY AND FIELDS T2 - Digital Proceedings, International Conference on the Applications of Computer Science and Mathematics in Architecture and Civil Engineering : July 04 - 06 2012, Bauhaus-University Weimar N2 - While integration increases by networking, segregation strides ahead too. Most of us fixate our mind on special topics. Yet we are relying on our intuition too. We are sometimes waiting for the inflow of new ideas or valuable information that we hold in high esteem, although we are not entirely conscious of its origin. We may even say the most precious intuitions are rooting in deep subconscious, collective layers of the mind. Take as a simple example the emergence of orientation in paleolithic events and its relation to the dihedral symmetry of the compass. Consider also the extension of this algebraic matter into the operational structures of the mind on the one hand and into the algebra of geometry, Clifford algebra as we use to call it today, on the other. Culture and mind, and even the individual act of creation may be connected with transient events that are subconscious and inaccessible to cognition in principle. Other events causative for our work may be merely invisible too us, though in principle they should turn out attainable. In this case we are just ignorant of the whole creative process. Sometimes we begin to use unusual tools or turn into handicraft enthusiasts. Then our small institutes turn into workshops and factories. All this is indeed joining with the Bauhaus and its spirit. We shall go together into this, and we shall present a record of this session. KW - Angewandte Informatik KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170314-27859 UR - http://euklid.bauing.uni-weimar.de/ikm2012 SN - 1611-4086 ER -