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Genre/Form: | Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Material Type: | Thesis/dissertation |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Sylvain Couëdo; Gérard Rio, (docteur en meÌcanique).; Laëtitia Duigou-Kersulec; Université européenne de Bretagne.; École doctorale Santé, information-communication et mathématiques, matière (Brest, Finistère).; Université de Bretagne Sud. |
OCLC Number: | 867415921 |
Description: | 1 vol. (XIII-218 p.) : ill. ; 30 cm. |
Responsibility: | par Sylvain Couëdo ; sous la direction de Gérard Rio et de Laëtitia Duigou. |
Abstract:
In computational mechanics, thin-shell structures are modeled by shell finite element. The most common way to take account of flexural deformations requires degrees of freedom in rotation. However, a family of shell elements has only degrees of freedom in translation. Compared to other shell finite elements, rotation-free shell elements have many advantages (good accuracy, reduced computation time, consistency of degrees of freedom and lake of shear locking). A disadvantage is the sensitivity to mesh distortion. The aim of this work is to improve the formulation of Semi-Finite Elements in order to reduce the sensitivity to the shape of the mesh. The SFE elements are formulated by using a convected material frame notion, which offers an interesting framework to take into account large transformations. A state of the art on the shell elements showed that results sensitivity to mesh distortion is a problem that remains open. The focal point to improve the SFE elements is the accuracy of the computation of the curvature tensor. The strategy is divided into two stages: exploration of different models of curvature computation and integration of the most promising model in a computer code. Firstly, different models of curvature computation were tested on a case of known curvature outside the context of the finite element method. A promising formulation emerged from these tests: the quadratic polynomial interpolation model is less sensitive to irregularities of the mesh. This model of curvature computation was then implanted in the academic code Herezh + +, complementing the two existing models. Static calculations geometrically linear and non-linear were conducted in order to validate the new formulation and to test the influence of mesh distortion. The results obtained with the SFE3 element for regular and irregular meshes show a great level of accuracy compared with reference results and a very low sensitivity to mesh distortion. Less academic applications were computed with SFE3 element: balloon inflation computations and impact computations taking into account a highly non-linear elasto-plastic behavior (“élastohystérésis”) and boundary conditions of contact. No particular difficulty was encountered, demonstrating the flexibility of the proposed model. Recent works on the many rotation-free elements showed that they constitute an interesting alternative to classical plate and shell elements. However, their sensitivity to the regularity of the mesh was a major limitation. The work presented in this paper shows that the proposed model is an efficient and reliable answer to this problem.
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