Finite and Virtual Element Formulations for Large Strain Anisotropic Material with Inextensive Fibers

authored by
P. Wriggers, B. Hudobivnik, J. Schröder
Abstract

Anisotropic material with inextensive or nearly inextensible fibers introduce constraints in the mathematical formulations of the underlying differential equations from mechanics. This is always the case when fibers with high stiffness in a certain direction are present and a relatively weak matrix material is supporting these fibers. In numerical solution schemes like the finite element method or the virtual element method the presence of constraints—in this case associated to a possible fiber inextensibility compared to a matrix—lead to so called locking-phenomena. This can be overcome by special interpolation schemes as has been discussed extensively for volume constraints like incompressibility as well as contact constraints. For anisotropic material behaviour the most severe case is related to inextensible fibers. In this paper a mixed method is developed for finite elements and virtual elements that can handle anisotropic materials with inextensive and nearly inextensive fibers. For this purpose a classical ansatz, known from the modeling of volume constraint is adopted leading stable elements that can be used in the finite strain regime.

Organisation(s)
Institute of Continuum Mechanics
External Organisation(s)
University of Duisburg-Essen
Type
Conference contribution
Pages
205-231
No. of pages
27
Publication date
02.12.2017
Publication status
Published
Peer reviewed
Yes
ASJC Scopus subject areas
Mechanical Engineering, Computational Theory and Mathematics
Electronic version(s)
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65463-8_11 (Access: Closed)
 

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