A hysteretic multiscale formulation for nonlinear dynamic analysis of composite materials

Triantafyllou, Savvas P.; Chatzi, E.N.

Abstract

A new multiscale finite element formulation is presented for nonlinear dynamic analysis of heterogeneous structures. The proposed multiscale approach utilizes the hysteretic finite element method to model the microstructure. Using the proposed computational scheme, the micro-basis functions, that are used to map the micro-displacement components to the coarse mesh, are only evaluated once and remain constant throughout the analysis procedure. This is accomplished by treating inelasticity at the micro-elemental level through properly defined hysteretic evolution equations. Two types of imposed boundary conditions are considered for the derivation of the multiscale basis functions, namely the linear and periodic boundary conditions. The validity of the proposed formulation as well as its computational efficiency are verified through illustrative numerical experiments.

Citation

Triantafyllou, S. P., & Chatzi, E. (2014). A hysteretic multiscale formulation for nonlinear dynamic analysis of composite materials. Computational Mechanics, 54(3), https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-014-1032-2

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Apr 7, 2014
• Online Publication Date: May 1, 2014
• Publication Date: Sep 1, 2014
• Deposit Date: Jul 4, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 4, 2016
• Journal: Computational Mechanics
• Print ISSN: 0178-7675
• Electronic ISSN: 0178-7675
• Publisher: Springer Verlag
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 54
• Issue: 3
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-014-1032-2
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/733463
• Publisher URL: http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs00466-014-1032-2
• Additional Information: The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00466-014-1032-2.