scholarly journals On a nonlinear rod exhibiting only axial and bending deformations: mathematical modeling and numerical implementation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristian Guillermo Gebhardt ◽  
Ignacio Romero

AbstractIn this work, we present the mathematical formulation and the numerical implementation of a new model for initially straight, transversely isotropic rods. By adopting a configuration space that intrinsically avoids shear deformations and by systemically neglecting the energetic contribution due to torsion, the proposed model admits an unconstrained variational statement. Moreover, as the natural state of the rod is the trivial one and the mechanical properties are homogeneous on the cross section, the need for pull-back and push-forward operations in the formulation is totally circumvented. These features impose, however, some smoothness requirements on the stored energy function that need to be carefully considered when adopting general constitutive models. In addition to introducing the rod model, we propose a spatial discretization with the finite element method, and a time integration with a hybrid, implicit scheme. To illustrate the favorable features of the new model, we provide results corresponding to numerical simulations for plane and three-dimensional problems that are investigated in the static and dynamic settings. Finally, and to put the presented ideas in a suitable context, we compare solutions obtained with the new model against a rod model that allows for torsion and shear.

Author(s):  
Liang Wang ◽  
Yongxing Wang ◽  
Antonio M. Recuero ◽  
Ahmed A. Shabana

This paper presents a new flexible multibody system (MBS) approach for modeling textile systems including roll-drafting sets used in chemical textile machinery. The proposed approach can be used in the analysis of textile materials such as lubricated polyester filament bundles (PFBs), which have uncommon material properties best described by specialized continuum mechanics constitutive models. In this investigation, the absolute nodal coordinate formulation (ANCF) is used to model PFB as a hyperelastic transversely isotropic material. The PFB strain energy density function is decomposed into a fully isotropic component and an orthotropic, transversely isotropic component expressed in terms of five invariants of the right Cauchy–Green deformation tensor. Using this energy decomposition, the second Piola–Kirchhoff stress and the elasticity tensors can also be split into isotropic and transversely isotropic parts. The constitutive equations are used to define the generalized material forces associated with the coordinates of three-dimensional fully parameterized ANCF finite elements (FEs). The proposed approach allows for modeling the dynamic interaction between the rollers and PFB and allows for using spline functions to describe the PFB forward velocity. The paper demonstrates that the textile material constitutive equations and the MBS algorithms can be used effectively to obtain numerical solutions that define the state of strain of the textile material and the relative slip between the rollers and PFB.


2019 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 555-581 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Leόn González Acosta ◽  
Philip J. Vardon ◽  
Guido Remmerswaal ◽  
Michael A. Hicks

AbstractStress inaccuracies (oscillations) are one of the main problems in the material point method (MPM), especially when advanced constitutive models are used. The origins of such oscillations are a combination of poor force and stiffness integration, stress recovery inaccuracies, and cell crossing problems. These are caused mainly by the use of shape function gradients and the use of material points for integration in MPM. The most common techniques developed to reduce stress oscillations consider adapting the shape function gradients so that they are continuous at the nodes. These techniques improve MPM, but problems remain, particularly in two and three dimensional cases. In this paper, the stress inaccuracies are investigated in detail, with particular reference to an implicit time integration scheme. Three modifications to MPM are implemented, and together these are able to remove almost all of the observed oscillations.


Author(s):  
Alberto Cavallini ◽  
Davide Del Col ◽  
Luca Doretti ◽  
Luisa Rossetto ◽  
Giovanni Antonio Longo

Author(s):  
Imtiaz Ahmad ◽  
Aly R. Seadawy ◽  
Hijaz Ahmad ◽  
Phatiphat Thounthong ◽  
Fuzhang Wang

Abstract This research work is to study the numerical solution of three-dimensional second-order hyperbolic telegraph equations using an efficient local meshless method based on radial basis function (RBF). The model equations are used in nuclear material science and in the modeling of vibrations of structures. The explicit time integration technique is utilized to semi-discretize the model in the time direction whereas the space derivatives of the model are discretized by the proposed local meshless procedure based on multiquadric RBF. Numerical experiments are performed with the proposed numerical scheme for rectangular and non-rectangular computational domains. The proposed method solutions are converging quickly in comparison with the different existing numerical methods in the recent literature.


Author(s):  
P A Bracewell ◽  
U R Klement

Piping design for ‘revamp’ projects in the process industry requires the retrieval of large amounts of ‘as-built’ data from existing process plant installations. Positional data with a high degree of accuracy are required. Photogrammetry, the science of measurement from photographs, was identified in Imperial Chemical Industries plc (ICI) as a suitable tool for information retrieval. The mathematical formulation enabling the definition of three-dimensional positions from photographic information is described. The process of using ICI's photogrammetric system for the definition of complete objects such as structures and pipes is illustrated. The need for specialized photogrammetric software for design purposes is explained. A case study describing how the photogrammetric system has been applied is described and graphical outputs from this exercise are shown. It is concluded that this particular photogrammetric system has proved to be a cost effective and accurate tool for the retrieval of ‘as-built’ information.


2015 ◽  
Vol 770 ◽  
pp. 156-188 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricio Winckler ◽  
Philip L.-F. Liu

A cross-sectionally averaged one-dimensional long-wave model is developed. Three-dimensional equations of motion for inviscid and incompressible fluid are first integrated over a channel cross-section. To express the resulting one-dimensional equations in terms of the cross-sectional-averaged longitudinal velocity and spanwise-averaged free-surface elevation, the characteristic depth and width of the channel cross-section are assumed to be smaller than the typical wavelength, resulting in Boussinesq-type equations. Viscous effects are also considered. The new model is, therefore, adequate for describing weakly nonlinear and weakly dispersive wave propagation along a non-uniform channel with arbitrary cross-section. More specifically, the new model has the following new properties: (i) the arbitrary channel cross-section can be asymmetric with respect to the direction of wave propagation, (ii) the channel cross-section can change appreciably within a wavelength, (iii) the effects of viscosity inside the bottom boundary layer can be considered, and (iv) the three-dimensional flow features can be recovered from the perturbation solutions. Analytical and numerical examples for uniform channels, channels where the cross-sectional geometry changes slowly and channels where the depth and width variation is appreciable within the wavelength scale are discussed to illustrate the validity and capability of the present model. With the consideration of viscous boundary layer effects, the present theory agrees reasonably well with experimental results presented by Chang et al. (J. Fluid Mech., vol. 95, 1979, pp. 401–414) for converging/diverging channels and those of Liu et al. (Coast. Engng, vol. 53, 2006, pp. 181–190) for a uniform channel with a sloping beach. The numerical results for a solitary wave propagating in a channel where the width variation is appreciable within a wavelength are discussed.


2008 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 83-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
T. Bodnár ◽  
A. Sequeira

The process of platelet activation and blood coagulation is quite complex and not yet completely understood. Recently, a phenomenological meaningful model of blood coagulation and clot formation in flowing blood that extends existing models to integrate biochemical, physiological and rheological factors, has been developed. The aim of this paper is to present results from a computational study of a simplified version of this coupled fluid-biochemistry model. A generalized Newtonian model with shear-thinning viscosity has been adopted to describe the flow of blood. To simulate the biochemical changes and transport of various enzymes, proteins and platelets involved in the coagulation process, a set of coupled advection–diffusion–reaction equations is used. Three-dimensional numerical simulations are carried out for the whole model in a straight vessel with circular cross-section, using a finite volume semi-discretization in space, on structured grids, and a multistage scheme for time integration. Clot formation and growth are investigated in the vicinity of an injured region of the vessel wall. These are preliminary results aimed at showing the validation of the model and of the numerical code.


2010 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 194-202 ◽  
Author(s):  
Takaaki Uda ◽  
Masumi Serizawa ◽  
Takayuki Kumada ◽  
Kazuya Sakai
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