Numerical simulation of structural behaviors using a meshfree-enriched finite element method
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IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
G06F-017/50
G06F-007/60
G06G-007/48
출원번호
US-0038330
(2011-03-01)
등록번호
US-8612186
(2013-12-17)
발명자
/ 주소
Wu, Cheng-Tang
Hu, Wei
출원인 / 주소
Livermore Software Technology Corp.
대리인 / 주소
Chu, Roger H.
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초록▼
System, method and software product for numerically simulating structural behaviors of an engineering product in compressible and near-incomprssible region is disclosed. Meshfree enriched finite element method (ME-FEM) is used for such numerical simulation. ME-FEM requires an engineering product be
System, method and software product for numerically simulating structural behaviors of an engineering product in compressible and near-incomprssible region is disclosed. Meshfree enriched finite element method (ME-FEM) is used for such numerical simulation. ME-FEM requires an engineering product be represented by a FEM model comprising a plurality of finite elements. Finite elements used in the ME-FEM are generally low-order finite elements. Each of the finite elements in the FEM model is enriched by at least one meshfree enriched (ME) node located within the element's domain. Each ME node has additional degrees-of-freedom for the element it belongs independent from those of the corner nodes. A displacement based first-order convex meshfree approximation is applied to the ME node. The convex meshfree approximation has Knonecker-delta property at the element's boundary. The gradient matrix of ME-FEM element satisfies integration constraint. ME-FEM interpolation is an element-wise meshfree interpolation that is discrete divergence-free at the incompressible limit.
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1. A computer-implemented method of simulating structural behaviors of an engineering product, the method comprising: receiving, by an application module installed in a computer system, a finite element method (FEM) model representing an engineering product, said FEM model comprises a plurality of F
1. A computer-implemented method of simulating structural behaviors of an engineering product, the method comprising: receiving, by an application module installed in a computer system, a finite element method (FEM) model representing an engineering product, said FEM model comprises a plurality of FEM elements;creating, by said application module, a meshfree enriched FEM (ME-FEM) model by adding at least one meshfree enriched (ME) node into each of a subset of the FEM elements, said at least one ME node is configured to eliminate volumetric locking; andobtaining, by said application module, numerically-simulated structural behaviors of the engineering product using the ME-FEM model, wherein said application module is configured to perform a meshfree enriched finite element analysis that employs a displacement-based first-order convex meshfree approximation and an element-wise interpolation possessing Kronecker-delta property at said each of said subset of the FEM element's boundary allowing essential boundary conditions to be applied. 2. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the FEM elements comprise low-order finite elements being defined by corner nodes and edges, said edges are defined by connecting a pair of adjacent said corner nodes. 3. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said displacement-based first-order convex meshfree approximation uses a basis function derived from one of an exponential, a hyperbolic tangent, an inverse tangent and Renyi function. 4. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said at least one ME node is located within corresponding domain of said each of said subset of the FEM elements. 5. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said each of said subset of the FEM elements is mapped to a transformed space to enable applying one or more domains of influence for the at least one ME node. 6. The computer-implemented method of claim 5, wherein the transformed space is a parametric space corresponding to one of said domains of influence. 7. The computer-implemented method of claim 1, wherein said structural behaviors comprises pressures and strains. 8. The computer-implemented method of claim 7, wherein said ME-FEM further uses an area-weighted integration incorporated with the element-wise interpolation to smoothen said pressures and said strains. 9. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein the smoothed strains are added into meshfree formulation using a modified Hu-Washizu variation principle. 10. The computer-implemented method of claim 8, wherein said element-wise interpolation has a discrete divergence-free property. 11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions for controlling a computer system to perform a simulation of structural behaviors of an engineering product by a method comprising: receiving, by an application module installed in a computer system, a finite element method (FEM) model representing an engineering product, said FEM model comprises a plurality of FEM elements;creating, by said application module, a meshfree enriched FEM (ME-FEM) model by adding at least one meshfree enriched (ME) node into each of a subset of the FEM elements, said at least one ME node is configured to eliminate volumetric locking; andobtaining, by said application module, numerically-simulated structural behaviors of the engineering product using the ME-FEM model, wherein said application module is configured to perform a meshfree enriched finite element analysis that employs a displacement-based first-order convex meshfree approximation and an element-wise interpolation possessing Kronecker-delta property at said each of said subset of the FEM element's boundary allowing essential boundary conditions to be applied. 12. A system for simulating structural behaviors of an engineering product, the system comprising: a main memory for storing computer readable code for an application module;a plurality of processing units coupled to the main memory, said processing units executing the computer readable code in the main memory to cause the application module to perform operations by a method of:receiving a finite element method (FEM) model representing an engineering product, said FEM model comprises a plurality of FEM elements;creating a meshfree enriched FEM (ME-FEM) model by adding at least one meshfree enriched (ME) node into each of a subset of the FEM elements, said at least one ME node is configured to eliminate volumetric locking; andobtaining numerically-simulated structural behaviors of the engineering product using the ME-FEM model, wherein said application module is configured to perform a meshfree enriched finite element analysis that employs a displacement-based first-order convex meshfree approximation and an element-wise interpolation possessing Kronecker-delta property at said each of said subset of the FEM element's boundary allowing essential boundary conditions to be applied.
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