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 - JOUR A1 - Chau-Dinh, T. A1 - Zi, Goangseup A1 - Lee, P.S. A1 - Song, Jeong-Hoon A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - Phantom-node method for shell models with arbitrary cracks JF - Computers & Structures N2 - A phantom-node method is developed for three-node shell elements to describe cracks. This method can treat arbitrary cracks independently of the mesh. The crack may cut elements completely or partially. Elements are overlapped on the position of the crack, and they are partially integrated to implement the discontinuous displacement across the crack. To consider the element containing a crack tip, a new kinematical relation between the overlapped elements is developed. There is no enrichment function for the discontinuous displacement field. Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the proposed method. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.compstruc.2011.10.021 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 - JOUR A1 - Chen, Lei A1 - Rabczuk, Timon A1 - Liu, G.R. A1 - Zeng, K.Y. A1 - Kerfriden, Pierre A1 - Bordas, Stéphane Pierre Alain T1 - Extended finite element method with edge-based strain smoothing (ESm-XFEM) for linear elastic crack growth JF - Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering N2 - This paper presents a strain smoothing procedure for the extended finite element method (XFEM). The resulting “edge-based” smoothed extended finite element method (ESm-XFEM) is tailored to linear elastic fracture mechanics and, in this context, to outperform the standard XFEM. In the XFEM, the displacement-based approximation is enriched by the Heaviside and asymptotic crack tip functions using the framework of partition of unity. This eliminates the need for the mesh alignment with the crack and re-meshing, as the crack evolves. Edge-based smoothing (ES) relies on a generalized smoothing operation over smoothing domains associated with edges of simplex meshes, and produces a softening effect leading to a close-to-exact stiffness, “super-convergence” and “ultra-accurate” solutions. The present method takes advantage of both the ES-FEM and the XFEM. Thanks to the use of strain smoothing, the subdivision of elements intersected by discontinuities and of integrating the (singular) derivatives of the approximation functions is suppressed via transforming interior integration into boundary integration. Numerical examples show that the proposed method improves significantly the accuracy of stress intensity factors and achieves a near optimal convergence rate in the energy norm even without geometrical enrichment or blending correction. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2011.08.013 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Nguyen-Xuan, Hung A1 - Rabczuk, Timon A1 - Nguyen-Thoi, T. A1 - Tran, T. A1 - Nguyen-Thanh, Nhon T1 - Computation of limit and shakedown loads using a node-based smoothed finite element method JF - International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering N2 - This paper presents a novel numerical procedure for computing limit and shakedown loads of structures using a node-based smoothed FEM in combination with a primal–dual algorithm. An associated primal–dual form based on the von Mises yield criterion is adopted. The primal-dual algorithm together with a Newton-like iteration are then used to solve this associated primal–dual form to determine simultaneously both approximate upper and quasi-lower bounds of the plastic collapse limit and the shakedown limit. The present formulation uses only linear approximations and its implementation into finite element programs is quite simple. Several numerical examples are given to show the reliability, accuracy, and generality of the present formulation compared with other available methods. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.3317 SP - 287 EP - 310 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Areias, Pedro A1 - Rabczuk, Timon A1 - Dias-da-Costa, D. A1 - Piresh, E.B. T1 - Implicit solutions with consistent additive and multiplicative components JF - Finite Elements in Analysis and Design N2 - This work describes an algorithm and corresponding software for incorporating general nonlinear multiple-point equality constraints in a implicit sparse direct solver. It is shown that direct addressing of sparse matrices is possible in general circumstances, circumventing the traditional linear or binary search for introducing (generalized) constituents to a sparse matrix. Nested and arbitrarily interconnected multiple-point constraints are introduced by processing of multiplicative constituents with a built-in topological ordering of the resulting directed graph. A classification of discretization methods is performed and some re-classified problems are described and solved under this proposed perspective. The dependence relations between solution methods, algorithms and constituents becomes apparent. Fracture algorithms can be naturally casted in this framework. Solutions based on control equations are also directly incorporated as equality constraints. We show that arbitrary constituents can be used as long as the resulting directed graph is acyclic. It is also shown that graph partitions and orderings should be performed in the innermost part of the algorithm, a fact with some peculiar consequences. The core of our implicit code is described, specifically new algorithms for direct access of sparse matrices (by means of the clique structure) and general constituent processing. It is demonstrated that the graph structure of the second derivatives of the equality constraints are cliques (or pseudo-elements) and are naturally included as such. A complete algorithm is presented which allows a complete automation of equality constraints, avoiding the need of pre-sorting. Verification applications in four distinct areas are shown: single and multiple rigid body dynamics, solution control and computational fracture. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.finel.2012.03.007 SP - 15 EP - 31 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jiang, Jin-Wu A1 - Zhao, Jun-Hua A1 - Zhou, K. A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - Superior thermal conductivity and extremely high mechanical strength in polyethylene chains from ab initio calculation JF - Journal of Applied Physics N2 - The upper limit of the thermal conductivity and the mechanical strength are predicted for the polyethylene chain, by performing the ab initio calculation and applying the quantum mechanical non-equilibrium Green’s function approach. Specially, there are two main findings from our calculation: (1) the thermal conductivity can reach a high value of 310 Wm−1 K−1 in a 100 nm polyethylene chain at room temperature and the thermal conductivity increases with the length of the chain; (2) the Young’s modulus in the polyethylene chain is as high as 374.5 GPa, and the polyethylene chain can sustain 32.85%±0.05% (ultimate) strain before undergoing structural phase transition into gaseous ethylene. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4729489 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Jiang, Jin-Wu A1 - Wang, Bing-Shen A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - Acoustic and breathing phonon modes in bilayer graphene with Moire-acute patterns JF - Applied Physics Letters N2 - The lattice dynamics properties are investigated for twisting bilayer graphene. There are big jumps for the inter-layer potential at twisting angle θ=0° and 60°, implying the stability of Bernal-stacking and the instability of AA-stacking structures, while a long platform in [8,55]° indicates the ease of twisting bilayer graphene in this wide angle range. Significant frequency shifts are observed for the z breathing mode around θ=0° and 60°, while the frequency is a constant in a wide range [8,55]°. Using the z breathing mode, a mechanical nanoresonator is proposed to operate on a robust resonant frequency in terahertz range. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.4735246 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 - Nguyen-Vinh, H. A1 - Bakar, I. A1 - Msekh, Mohammed Abdulrazzak A1 - Song, Jeong-Hoon A1 - Muthu, Jacob A1 - Zi, Goangseup A1 - Le, P. A1 - Bordas, Stéphane Pierre Alain A1 - Simpson, R. A1 - Natarajan, S. A1 - Lahmer, Tom A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - Extended Finite Element Method for Dynamic Fracture of Piezo-Electric Materials JF - Engineering Fracture Mechanics N2 - We present an extended finite element formulation for dynamic fracture of piezo-electric materials. The method is developed in the context of linear elastic fracture mechanics. It is applied to mode I and mixed mode-fracture for quasi-steady cracks. An implicit time integration scheme is exploited. The results are compared to results obtained with the boundary element method and show excellent agreement. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Stochastik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.engfracmech.2012.04.025 SP - 19 EP - 31 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Natarajan, S. A1 - Chakraborty, S. A1 - Thangavel, M. A1 - Bordas, Stéphane Pierre Alain A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - Size dependent free flexural vibration behavior of functionally graded nanoplates JF - Computational Materials Science N2 - Size dependent free flexural vibration behavior of functionally graded nanoplates KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 SP - 74 EP - 80 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 - 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 - JOUR A1 - Jiang, Jin-Wu A1 - Park, Harold S. A1 - Rabczuk, Timon T1 - Enhancing the mass sensitivity of graphene nanoresonators via nonlinear oscillations: The effective strain mechanism JF - Nanotechnology N2 - Enhancing the mass sensitivity of graphene nanoresonators via nonlinear oscillations: The effective strain mechanism KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Strukturmechanik Y1 - 2012 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 - Finite-Elemente-Methode KW - Feststoff Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170426-31639 ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Ahmad, Sofyan A1 - Zabel, Volkmar A1 - Könke, Carsten T1 - WAVELET-BASED INDICATORS FOR RESPONSE SURFACE MODELS IN DAMAGE IDENTIFICATION OF STRUCTURES 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 - In this paper, wavelet energy damage indicator is used in response surface methodology to identify the damage in simulated filler beam railway bridge. The approximate model is addressed to include the operational and surrounding condition in the assessment. The procedure is split into two stages, the training and detecting phase. During training phase, a so-called response surface is built from training data using polynomial regression and radial basis function approximation approaches. The response surface is used to detect the damage in structure during detection phase. The results show that the response surface model is able to detect moderate damage in one of bridge supports while the temperatures and train velocities are varied. KW - Angewandte Mathematik KW - Computerunterstütztes Verfahren KW - Angewandte Informatik Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170306-27588 SN - 1611-4086 ER - TY - THES A1 - Schrader, Kai T1 - Hybrid 3D simulation methods for the damage analysis of multiphase composites T1 - Hybride 3D Simulationsmethoden zur Abbildung der Schädigungsvorgänge in Mehrphasen-Verbundwerkstoffen N2 - Modern digital material approaches for the visualization and simulation of heterogeneous materials allow to investigate the behavior of complex multiphase materials with their physical nonlinear material response at various scales. However, these computational techniques require extensive hardware resources with respect to computing power and main memory to solve numerically large-scale discretized models in 3D. Due to a very high number of degrees of freedom, which may rapidly be increased to the two-digit million range, the limited hardware ressources are to be utilized in a most efficient way to enable an execution of the numerical algorithms in minimal computation time. Hence, in the field of computational mechanics, various methods and algorithms can lead to an optimized runtime behavior of nonlinear simulation models, where several approaches are proposed and investigated in this thesis. Today, the numerical simulation of damage effects in heterogeneous materials is performed by the adaption of multiscale methods. A consistent modeling in the three-dimensional space with an appropriate discretization resolution on each scale (based on a hierarchical or concurrent multiscale model), however, still contains computational challenges in respect to the convergence behavior, the scale transition or the solver performance of the weak coupled problems. The computational efficiency and the distribution among available hardware resources (often based on a parallel hardware architecture) can significantly be improved. In the past years, high-performance computing (HPC) and graphics processing unit (GPU) based computation techniques were established for the investigationof scientific objectives. Their application results in the modification of existing and the development of new computational methods for the numerical implementation, which enables to take advantage of massively clustered computer hardware resources. In the field of numerical simulation in material science, e.g. within the investigation of damage effects in multiphase composites, the suitability of such models is often restricted by the number of degrees of freedom (d.o.f.s) in the three-dimensional spatial discretization. This proves to be difficult for the type of implementation method used for the nonlinear simulation procedure and, simultaneously has a great influence on memory demand and computational time. In this thesis, a hybrid discretization technique has been developed for the three-dimensional discretization of a three-phase material, which is respecting the numerical efficiency of nonlinear (damage) simulations of these materials. The increase of the computational efficiency is enabled by the improved scalability of the numerical algorithms. Consequently, substructuring methods for partitioning the hybrid mesh were implemented, tested and adapted to the HPC computing framework using several hundred CPU (central processing units) nodes for building the finite element assembly. A memory-efficient iterative and parallelized equation solver combined with a special preconditioning technique for solving the underlying equation system was modified and adapted to enable combined CPU and GPU based computations. Hence, it is recommended by the author to apply the substructuring method for hybrid meshes, which respects different material phases and their mechanical behavior and which enables to split the structure in elastic and inelastic parts. However, the consideration of the nonlinear material behavior, specified for the corresponding phase, is limited to the inelastic domains only, and by that causes a decreased computing time for the nonlinear procedure. Due to the high numerical effort for such simulations, an alternative approach for the nonlinear finite element analysis, based on the sequential linear analysis, was implemented in respect to scalable HPC. The incremental-iterative procedure in finite element analysis (FEA) during the nonlinear step was then replaced by a sequence of linear FE analysis when damage in critical regions occured, known in literature as saw-tooth approach. As a result, qualitative (smeared) crack initiation in 3D multiphase specimens has efficiently been simulated. T3 - ISM-Bericht // Institut für Strukturmechanik, Bauhaus-Universität Weimar - 2013,2 KW - high-performance computing KW - finite element method KW - heterogeneous material KW - domain decomposition KW - scalable smeared crack analysis KW - FEM KW - multiphase KW - damage KW - HPC KW - solver Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20131021-20595 ER - TY - THES A1 - Herrmann, Annemarie T1 - Investigation of buckling behavior of carbon fiber-reinforced composite shell structures with openings N2 - Thin-walled cylindrical composite shell structures are often applied in aerospace for lighter and cheaper launcher transport system. These structures exhibit sensitivity to geometrical imperfection and are prone to buckling under axial compression. Today the design is based on NASA guidelines from the 1960’s [1] using a conservative lower bound curve embodying many experimental results of that time. It is well known that the advantages and different characteristics of composites as well as the evolution of manufacturing standards are not considered apporopriately in this outdated approach. The DESICOS project was initiated to provide new design guidelines regarding all the advantages of composites and allow further weight reduction of space structures by guaranteeing a more precise and robust design. Therefore it is necessary among other things to understand how a cutout with different dimensions affects the buckling load of a thin-walled cylindrical shell structure in combination with initial geometric imperfections. This work is intended to identify a ratio between the cutout characteristic dimension (in this case the cutout diameter) and the structure characteristic dimension (in this case the cylinder radius) that can be used to tell if the buckling structure is dominated by initial imperfections or is dominated by the cutout. KW - buckling KW - composite KW - Abaqus KW - cylindrical shell structures Y1 - 2012 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20130107-18129 UR - www.desicos.eu ER -