Transverse flexure of a physically nonlinear rectangular grid plate elastically fixed at its contour

The transverse flexure of a rectangular grid plate consisting of two families of physically nonlinear rods is considered. On the basis of the calculation scheme, the hypothesis of a continuum calculation model is adopted. A numerical algorithm based on the elastic-solution method is proposed for the investigation of the initial nonlinear boundary problem. The calculation results for a plate with a rhombic grid formed by H-beam rods with a tension-compression diagram in the form of a cubic binomial are subjected to detailed analysis. The influence of physical nonlinearity of the material, as well as the parameters of the grid and elastic fixing of the contour, on the stress-strain state and the limiting load is shown.Translated from Teoreticheskaya i Prikladnaya Mekhanika, No. 18, pp. 49–55, 1987.     

Constitutive modeling of ferromagnetic and ferroelectric behaviors and application to multiferroic composites

In this paper, the constitutive modeling of nonlinear multifield behavior as well as the finite element implementation are presented. Nonlinear material models describing the magneto-ferroelectric or electro-ferromagnetic behaviors are presented. Both physically and phenomenologically motivated constitutive models have been developed for the numerical calculation of principally different nonlinear magnetostrictive behaviors. Further, the nonlinear ferroelectric behavior is based on a physically motivated constitutive model. On this basis, the polarization in the ferroelectric and magnetization in the ferromagnetic and magnetostrictive phases, respectively, are simulated and the resulting effects analyzed. Numerical simulations focus on the calculation of magnetoelectric coupling and on the prediction of local domain orientations going along with the poling process, thus supplying information on favorable electric-magnetic loading sequences. (© 2016 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Z-P-S空间中一类非线性算子方程解的存在性问题

拓扑度理论是研究非线性算子方程解的存在性的有力工具.利用拓扑度的方法,对Z-P-S空间中一类非线性算子方程解的存在性问题进行了研究,得到了若干新的结果.     

Nonlinear analysis of thermoelastic damping in axisymmetric vibration of micro circular thin-plate resonators

Thermoelastic damping is a source of dissipation in micro scale circular plate resonators. In contrast to previous researches, in this study thermoelastic damping is derived considering nonlinear effects. The microplate is assumed as a clamped circular plate. The microplate is modeled using the von Karman hypothesis along with Hamilton principle. Finally for harmonic vibrations, by using Kantorovich time averaging technique and perturbation techniques, thermoelastic damping is derived. The behavior of thermoelastic damping versus material properties, environmental temperature, plate radius and plate thickness are plotted. In this study the difference between linear and nonlinear analysis is shown for calculation of thermoelastic damping. The results show that the nonlinear analysis has a significant influence on thermoelastic damping coefficient.     

A Finite Element Formulation for the Nonlinear Analysis of Piezoelectric Three-Dimensional Beam Structures

A finite element formulation for a three-dimensional piezoelectric beam which includes geometrical and material nonlinearities is presented. To account for the piezoelectric effect, the coupling between the mechanical stress and the electrical displacement is considered. Based on the Timoshenko theory, an eccentric beam formulation is introduced which provides an efficient model to analyze piezoelectric structures. The geometrically nonlinear assumption allows the calculation of large deformations including buckling analysis. A quadratic approximation of the electric potential through the cross section of the beam ensures the fulfilment of the charge conservation law exactly. This assumption leads to a finite element formulation with six mechanical and five electrical degrees of freedom per node. To take into account the typical ferroelectric hysteresis phenomena, a nonlinear material model is essential. For this purpose, the phenomenological Preisach model is implemented into the beam formulation which provides an efficient determination of the remanent part of the polarization. The applicability of the introduced beam formulation is discussed with respect to available data from literature. (© 2005 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

On two-point boundary value problems in multi-ion electrodiffusion

The solvability is established of certain two-point boundary value problems for nonlinear equations that arise in multi-ion electrodiffusion. Topological methods are adduced to prove the existence of solutions under appropriate conditions on the physical parameters.     

Nonlinear,finite deformation,finite element analysis

The roles of the consistent Jacobian matrix and the material tangent moduli, which are used in nonlinear incremental finite deformation mechanics problems solved using the finite element method, are emphasized in this paper, and demonstrated using the commercial software ABAQUS standard. In doing so, the necessity for correctly employing user material subroutines to solve nonlinear problems involving large deformation and/or large rotation is clarified. Starting with the rate form of the principle of virtual work, the derivations of the material tangent moduli, the consistent Jacobian matrix, the stress/strain measures, and the objective stress rates are discussed and clarified. The difference between the consistent Jacobian matrix (which, in the ABAQUS UMAT user material subroutine is referred to as DDSDDE) and the material tangent moduli (C^e) needed for the stress update is pointed out and emphasized in this paper. While the former is derived based on the Jaumann rate of the Kirchhoff stress, the latter is derived using the Jaumann rate of the Cauchy stress. Understanding the difference between these two objective stress rates is crucial for correctly implementing a constitutive model, especially a rate form constitutive relation, and for ensuring fast convergence. Specifically, the implementation requires the stresses to be updated correctly. For this, the strains must be computed directly from the deformation gradient and corresponding strain measure (for a total form model). Alternatively, the material tangent moduli derived from the corresponding Jaumann rate of the Cauchy stress of the constitutive relation (for a rate form model) should be used. Given that this requirement is satisfied, the consistent Jacobian matrix only influences the rate of convergence. Its derivation should be based on the Jaumann rate of the Kirchhoff stress to ensure fast convergence; however, the use of a different objective stress rate may also be possible. The error associated with energy conservation and work-conjugacy due to the use of the Jaumann objective stress rate in ABAQUS nonlinear incremental analysis is viewed as a consequence of the implementation of a constitutive model that violates these requirements.     

Topological structure of solution sets to asymptotic boundary value problems

Topological structure is investigated for second-order vector asymptotic boundary value problems. Because of indicated obstructions, the Rδ-structure is firstly studied for problems on compact intervals and then, by means of the inverse limit method, on non-compact intervals. The information about the structure is furthermore employed, by virtue of a fixed-point index technique in Fréchet spaces developed by ourselves earlier, for obtaining an existence result for nonlinear asymptotic problems. Some illustrating examples are supplied.     

Dynamic boundary value problems of the second-order: Bernstein–Nagumo conditions and solvability

This article analyzes the solvability of second-order, nonlinear dynamic boundary value problems (BVPs) on time scales. New Bernstein–Nagumo conditions are developed that guarantee an a priori bound on the delta derivative of potential solutions to the BVPs under consideration. Topological methods are then employed to gain solvability.     

铁磁性设备补偿磁场的数学模型及其应用

研究用永磁体对铁磁性设备进行磁场补偿的问题,建立了补偿磁场的数学模型.将设备划分成若干个小长方体后,基于磁矩量法建立了数学模型,并对补偿磁场进行拟合.在计算模型中的耦合系数矩阵时,用多个点的平均值作为耦合系数的有效值,提高了计算结果的可靠性和稳定性.并且,针对永磁体距离设备很近时,设备呈现出的非线性磁化特性,通过优化方法求解各个单元的等效磁化率,这种方法不需要知道铁磁材料的磁化曲线和设备结构,便于计算和实际应用.最后,通过实验设计与数值计算,得到了永磁体对设备进行补偿的磁场分布,模型计算结果与实际测量数据误差11%以内,这说明该模型能够满足工业要求,具有实际应用价值.     

Nonlinear free vibration analysis of simply supported piezo-laminated plates with random actuation electric potential difference and material properties

Studies are made on nonlinear free vibrations of simply supported piezo-laminated rectangular plates with immovable edges utilizing Kirchoff’s hypothesis and von Kármán strain–displacement relations. The effect of random material properties of the base structure and actuation electric potential difference on the nonlinear free vibration of the plate is examined. The study is confined to linear-induced strain in the piezoelectric layer applicable to low electric fields. The von Kármán’s large deflection equations for generally laminated elastic plates are derived in terms of stress function and transverse deflection function. A deflection function satisfying the simply supported boundary conditions is assumed and a stress function is then obtained after solving the compatibility equation. Applying the modified Galerkin’s method to the governing nonlinear partial differential equations, a modal equation of Duffing’s type is obtained. It is solved by exact integration. Monte Carlo simulation has been carried out to examine the response statistics considering the material properties and actuation electric potential difference of the piezoelectric layer as random variables. The extremal values of response are also evaluated utilizing the Convex model as well as the Multivariate method. Results obtained through the different statistical approaches are found to be in good agreement with each other.     

Solvability of equations with partially additive operators

New results related to the solvability of equations with partially additive operators acting on regular spaces are obtained by methods of functional analysis. The equations under examination have important applications, in particular, to nonlinear mechanics and physics. Topological properties of partially additive operators are also studied.     

Coupled consolidation and contaminant transport model for simulating migration of contaminants through the sediment and a cap

Capping contaminated sediments in waterways is an alternate remediation technique to dredging and is typically much cheaper than dredging. When cap material is placed on top of contaminated sediment, it has both a short-term and long-term hydraulic impact on the underlying sediment. A numerical model of consolidation, based on a nonlinear finite strain theory for a consolidating fine-grained sediment bed was developed. The nonlinear equation of consolidation was solved in a material (or reduced) coordinate using an explicit finite difference numerical scheme. An one-dimensional advection–diffusion equation with sorption and decay was solved on a convective coordinate using a finite volume total variation diminishing (TVD) scheme for the contaminant concentration within the consolidating sediment. The contaminant transport model was coupled with the consolidation model. The time and space varying porosities, permeabilities, and advective velocities computed by the consolidation model were linked to the transport model at the same time level. A number of benchmark tests that are relevant to the consolidation of a fine-grained sediment were designed and tested. The relative contribution of consolidation-induced transient advective velocities on the migration of a contaminant during consolidation was also investigated. The coupled model performance was validated by simulating the transport of hazardous chemicals under consolidation in a confined aquatic disposal (CAD) site in the Lower Duwamish Waterway, Seattle.     

Linear difference equations mod 2 with applications to nonlinear difference equations1

Known results for linear difference equations mod 2 with T-periodic solutions are extended and compiled for applications to the semicycle analysis of nonlinear difference equations. For the calculation of T, four methods are presented. A further application concerns rational functions in the field of integers mod 2.     

An order ε2perturbation procedure for second order nonlinear difference equations

We extend a previous calculation on a Lindstedt Poincar'e type perturbation method to order ε² for a class of nonlinear difference equations which come from a nonstandard finite difference scheme constructed for I-dim nonlinear oscillators. This procedure eliminates secular terms and leads to results that are uniformly valid. Arguments are given on the applicability of the method to higher orders of the perturbation expansion in the small parameter ε     

A nonlinear iteration method for solving a two-dimensional nonlinear coupled system of parabolic and hyperbolic equations

A nonlinear iteration method for solving a class of two-dimensional nonlinear coupled systems of parabolic and hyperbolic equations is studied. A simple iterative finite difference scheme is designed; the calculation complexity is reduced by decoupling the nonlinear system, and the precision is assured by timely evaluation updating. A strict theoretical analysis is carried out as regards the convergence and approximation properties of the iterative scheme, and the related stability and approximation properties of the nonlinear fully implicit finite difference (FIFD) scheme. The iterative algorithm has a linear constringent ratio; its solution gives a second-order spatial approximation and first-order temporal approximation to the real solution. The corresponding nonlinear FIFD scheme is stable and gives the same order of approximation. Numerical tests verify the results of the theoretical analysis. The discrete functional analysis and inductive hypothesis reasoning techniques used in this paper are helpful for overcoming difficulties arising from the nonlinearity and coupling and lead to a related theoretical analysis for nonlinear FI schemes.     

On small perturbations of a nonlinear periodic system with degenerate equilibrium

This paper considers the reducibility and existence of periodic solutions for a class of nonlinear periodic system with a degenerate equilibrium point under small perturbations. By introducing some parameter, we consider an equivalent periodic system. Then we prove that by an affine linear periodic transformation the parameterized periodic system is reducible to one with zero as an equilibrium. Topological degree theorem ensures that for some parameter the result can go back to the original system. Then, we obtain a small periodic solution.     

基于参数化水平集法的材料非线性子结构拓扑优化

针对利用传统水平集法进行非线性结构拓扑优化计算过程复杂及计算效率低等问题,将参数化水平集方法引入材料非线性结构拓扑优化中。通过全局径向基函数插值初始水平集函数,建立了以插值系数为设计变量、结构的应变能最小为目标函数、材料用量为约束条件的材料非线性结构拓扑优化模型,利用有限元分析对材料非线性结构建立平衡方程,并用迭代法求解。同时,采用子结构法划分设计区域为若干个子区域,将全自由度平衡方程的求解分解为缩减的平衡方程和多个子结构内部位移的求解,减小了计算成本。算例表明,这种处理非线性关系的方法可以在保证数值稳定的同时提高计算效率,得到边界清晰、结构合理的拓扑优化构形。     

Thermo-chemical modelling of the formation of a composite material

We consider a composite material composed of carbon or glass fibres included in a resin which becomes solid when it is heated up (the reaction of reticulation).

A mathematical model of the cure process is given by a kinetic equation describing the evolution of the reaction of reticulation coupled with the heat equation. The geometry of the composite material is periodic, with a small period ? >0, thus we get a coupled system of nonlinear partial differential equations.

First we prove the existence and uniqueness of a solution by using a fixed point theorem and we obtain a priori estimates. Then we derive the homogenized problem which describes the macroscopic behaviour of the material. We prove the convergence of the solution of the problem to the solution of the homogenized problem when ? tends to zero as well as the estimates for the difference of the exact and the approximate solutions.     

Multiscale Modelling of the Effective Viscoplastic Material Behaviour of Textile-Reinforced Polymers Using XFEM

In this contribution a modelling approach using numerical homogenisation techniques is applied to predict the effective nonlinear material behaviour of composites from simulations of a representative volume element (RVE). Numerical models of the heterogeneous material structure in the RVE are generated using the eXtended Finite Element Method (XFEM) which allows for a regular mesh. Suitable constitutive relations account for the material behaviour of the constituents. The influence of the nonlinear matrix material behaviour on the composite is studied in a physically nonlinear FE simulation of the local material behaviour in the RVE ­ effective stress-strain curves are computed and compared to experimental observations. The approach is currently augmented by a damage model for the fibre bundle. (© 2010 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)