Fiber-reinforced materials

finite elements for the treatment of the inextensibility constraint

verfasst von
Ferdinando Auricchio, Giulia Scalet, Peter Wriggers
Abstract

The present paper proposes a numerical framework for the analysis of problems involving fiber-reinforced anisotropic materials. Specifically, isotropic linear elastic solids, reinforced by a single family of inextensible fibers, are considered. The kinematic constraint equation of inextensibility in the fiber direction leads to the presence of an undetermined fiber stress in the constitutive equations. To avoid locking-phenomena in the numerical solution due to the presence of the constraint, mixed finite elements based on the Lagrange multiplier, perturbed Lagrangian, and penalty method are proposed. Several boundary-value problems under plane strain conditions are solved and numerical results are compared to analytical solutions, whenever the derivation is possible. The performed simulations allow to assess the performance of the proposed finite elements and to discuss several features of the developed formulations concerning the effective approximation for the displacement and fiber stress fields, mesh convergence, and sensitivity to penalty parameters.

Organisationseinheit(en)
Institut für Kontinuumsmechanik
Externe Organisation(en)
Università degli Studi di Pavia
Typ
Artikel
Journal
Computational mechanics
Band
60
Seiten
905-922
Anzahl der Seiten
18
ISSN
0178-7675
Publikationsdatum
20.07.2017
Publikationsstatus
Veröffentlicht
Peer-reviewed
Ja
ASJC Scopus Sachgebiete
Meerestechnik, Maschinenbau, Theoretische Informatik und Mathematik, Computational Mathematics, Angewandte Mathematik
Elektronische Version(en)
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-017-1437-9 (Zugang: Geschlossen)
 

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