首页|An Asynchronous Variational Integrator for Contact Problems Involving Elastoplastic Solids

An Asynchronous Variational Integrator for Contact Problems Involving Elastoplastic Solids

扫码查看
Simulations of contact problems involving at least one plastic solid may be costly due to their strong nonlinearity and requirements of stability.In this work,we develop an explicit asynchronous variational integrator(AVI)for inelastic non-frictional contact problems involving a plastic solid.The AVI assigns each element in the mesh an independent time step and updates the solution at the elements and nodes asynchronously.This asynchrony makes the AVI highly efficient in solving such bi-material problems.Taking advantage of the AVI,the constitutive update is locally performed in one element at a time,and contact constraints are also enforced on only one element.The time step of the contact element is subdivided into multiple segments,and the fields are updated accordingly.During a contact event,only one element involving a few degrees of freedom is considered,leading to high efficiency.The proposed formulation is first verified with a pure elastodynamics benchmark and further applied to a contact problem involving an elastoplastic solid with non-associative volumetric hardening.The numerical results indicate that the AVI exhibits excellent energy behaviors and has high computational efficiency.

Asynchronous variational integratorPlasticityContactComputational efficiencyFinite element method

Zongwu Niu、Zixiao Wang、Yongxing Shen

展开 >

University of Michigan-Shanghai Jiao Tong University Joint Institute,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200240,China

School of Agriculture and Biology,Shanghai Jiao Tong University,Shanghai 200240,China

Department of Biostatistics,Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health,Baltimore,Maryland 21205,USA

Hui-Chun Chin and Tsung-Dao Lee Chinese Under-graduate Research Endowment(CURE)

2024

固体力学学报(英文版)
中国力学学会

固体力学学报(英文版)

EI
影响因子:0.214
ISSN:0894-9166
年,卷(期):2024.37(2)
  • 24