Mathematical modelling of rate-independent pseudoelastic SMA material

The paper presents a procedure for the formulation of constitutive equations for rate-independent pseudoelastic SMA material models. The procedure applies a rheological scheme representing mechanical properties of the material. An additive decomposition of strains into two parts is proposed. The first part describes strains of a perfectly elastic body while the second part may be represented by a combination of a rigid perfectly elastic body and a rigid perfectly plastic body. It is demonstrated that the key problem of formulation of constitutive relationships is to derive the 1st order differential equation with respect to the tensor describing the second part of the strain field. This equation may be obtained in explicit form starting from the variational inequalities defining non-elastic parts of rheological model. The uniqueness of the obtained differential equation has been proved. A numerical implementation of the constitutive relationships of SMA material was done through the user subroutine module VUMAT within the FE commercial code ABAQUS/Explicit. As an example we analyzed the problem of vibration of a simple 3D structure made of SMA.     

An alternative alpha finite element method with discrete shear gap technique for analysis of laminated composite plates

This paper presents an alternative alpha finite element method using triangular meshes (AαFEM) for static, free vibration and buckling analyses of laminated composite plates. In the AαFEM, an assumed strain field is carefully constructed by combining compatible strains and additional strains with an adjustable parameter α which can produce an effectively softer stiffness formulation compared to the linear triangular element. The stiffness matrices are obtained based on the strain smoothing technique over the smoothing domains and the constant strains on triangular sub-domains associated with the nodes of the elements. The discrete shear gap (DSG) method is incorporated into the AαFEM to eliminate transverse shear locking and an improved triangular element termed as AαDSG3 is proposed. Several numerical examples are then given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the AαDSG3.     

A posteriori error estimates for optimal distributed control governed by the evolution equations

We describe a technique for a posteriori error estimates suitable to the optimal control problem governed by the evolution equations solved by the method of lines. It is applied to the control problem governed by the parabolic equation, convection-diffusion equation and hyperbolic equation. The error is measured with the aid of the L²-norm in the space-time cylinder combined with a special time weighted energy norm.     

物理参数变化对短脉冲激光激励温度场的影响

 为研究多物理参数（耦合系数、电子热导率、电子热容、晶格热容）同时随温度变化对短脉冲激光辐照金属材料产生温度场分布的影响,基于双温耦合理论,建立了短脉冲激光辐照金属材料金的加热过程的有限元求解模型。在同时考虑脉冲激光的空间、时间分布和多参数同时随温度变化的情况下,得到短脉冲激光辐照金属材料金激励产生的温度场二维瞬态分布,并进一步比较了多物理参数同时随温度变化和采用室温物理参数两种情况下温度场分布的区别。数值结果表明：多物理参数同时随温度变化使电子温度和晶格温度的上升变快,最大值变大,而且使得材料中激光穿透直接辐照到的区域温度变高。     

某软土深基坑工程时间效应有限元分析

软土地区的深基坑因土体的固结作用和流变性而具有了时间效应。本文以Biot固结有限元法为基础,用三元件模型中的第一个线性弹簧模拟固结作用,弹性模量考虑了开挖应力路径和应力历史的影响;另外一部分(KELVIN模型)来模拟土体的流变性,以实际变形的反演来得到两个参数的大致取值,再对基坑的变形情况以及进一步开挖进行分析。假定为正常固结饱和粘土,平面应变问题。通过对某饱和软粘土地基深基坑开挖工程实例的分析,得到的挡墙水平位移曲线与实测曲线很吻合,表明程序较好地反映出基坑的时间效应。     

A METHOD OF DETERMINING BUCKLED STATES OF THIN PLATES AT A DOUBLE EIGENVALUE

A method of determining bifurcation directions at a double eigenvalue is presented by combining the finite element method with the perturbation method. By using the present method, the buckled states of rectangular plates at a double eigenvalue are numerically analyzed. The results show that this method is effective.     

基于拉格朗日乘子法和群论的具有任意位移边界条件的旋转周期对称结构有限元分析

对任意位移边界条件下的旋转周期对称结构，由拉格朗日乘子法建立有限元方程。在对称适应的坐标系下，由结构刚度矩阵的块循环性质，利用群变换给出一种新的求解方法。数值验证给出令人满意的结果。     

标准有限元方法模拟大气压流注等离子体中数值振荡与伪扩散问题研究与改进

基于商用软件的等离子体数值模拟方案大多是基于标准Galerkin格式的有限元方法,在计算大气压流注放电时,存在数值振荡和伪扩散的问题,计算结果可靠性不高.针对针-板体流注放电结构,构建了修正的COMSOL Multiphysics等离子体模型.修正模型与COMSOL Multiphysics内置等离子体模块的区别主要在于增加了基于弱形式的人工稳定项.利用修正模型复现了经典的雪崩-流注转捩算例,并与经典纳秒秒冲过电压针板放电实验结果进行了对比验证.结果表明,引入修正后的商用软件模型能够克服数值振荡和伪扩散缺陷,确保等离子体数值计算的准确性和可复现性.      

Simulation of oscillatory flow in an aortic bifurcation using FVM and FEM: A comparative study of implementation strategies

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the major causes of long‐term morbidity and mortality in human beings. The nearly epidemic increase in prevalence of such diseases poses a serious threat to public health and calls for efficient methods of diagnosis and treatment. Non‐invasive diagnostic procedures such as MRI are often used in this context; however, these are limited in terms of spatial and temporal resolution and do not provide information on time‐dependent pressures and wall shear stresses—key quantities considered to be partially responsible for the formation and development of related pathologies. The present study is concerned with the numerical simulation of oscillatory flow through the abdominal aortic bifurcation. Computational fluid dynamics simulation of oscillatory flow in a branched geometry at high Reynolds numbers poses considerable challenges. The present study reports a detailed comparison of simulations performed with a finite volume and a finite element method, two approaches with significant differences in their discretization strategy, treatment of boundary conditions and other numerical aspects. Both solvers were parallelized, using loop parallelization of the BiCGStab linear solver for the finite volume and domain decomposition based on the Schur complement method for the finite element technique. The experience gained with these two approaches for the solution of flow in a bifurcation forms the focus of this study. Although similar results were obtained for both methods, the computation time required for convergence was found to be significantly smaller for the finite element approach. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

EFFECT OF HEAD SHAPE ON THE ADHESION CAPABILITY OF MUSHROOM-LIKE BIOLOGICAL ADHESIVE STRUCTURES

Theoretical studies have been extensively performed to reveal the mechanism of the biological adhesive structure with a flat head.However,most biological adhesive structures have a big head.Here we investigate the effect of the head shape on the adhesion capability of a mushroomlike adhesion structure based on a finite element model.We show that a mushroom-like head produces significant adhesion enhancement.We investigate also the effect of the elastic modulus of the adhesive structure on the adhesion.Our results are consistent with existing experimental results.