To better simulate multi-phase interactions involving failure evolution, the material point method （MPM） has evolved for almost twenty years. Recently, a particle-based multiscale simulation procedure is being developed, within the framework of the MPM, to describe the detonation process of energetic nano-composites from molecular to continuum level so that a multiscale equation of state could be formulated. In this letter, a multiscale MPM is proposed via both hierarchical and concurrent schemes to simulate the impact response between two microrods with different nanostructures. Preliminary results are presented to illustrate that a transition region is not required between different spatial scales with the proposed approach.
Zhen ChenYilong HanShan JiangYong GanThomas D. Sewell
Biomaterials such as bone,teeth,nacre and silk are known to have superior mechanical properties due to their specific nanocomposite structures.Here we report that the woodpecker's tongue exhibits a novel strength and flexibility due to its special composite micro/nanostructure.The tongue consists of a flexible cartilage-and-bone skeleton covered with a thin layer tissue of high strength and elasticity.At the interface between the cartilage-and-bone skeleton and the tissue layer,there is a hierarchical fiber-typed connection.It is this special design of the tongue that makes the woodpeckers efficient in catching the insects inside trees.The special micro/nanostructures of the woodpecker's tongue show us a potential method to enhance the interfacial connection between soft and hard material layers for bio-inspired composite system designs.
An extended multiscale finite element method （EMsFEM） is developed for solving the mechanical problems of heterogeneous materials in elasticity.The underlying idea of the method is to construct numerically the multiscale base functions to capture the small-scale features of the coarse elements in the multiscale finite element analysis.On the basis of our existing work for periodic truss materials, the construction methods of the base functions for continuum heterogeneous materials are systematically introduced. Numerical experiments show that the choice of boundary conditions for the construction of the base functions has a big influence on the accuracy of the multiscale solutions, thus,different kinds of boundary conditions are proposed. The efficiency and accuracy of the developed method are validated and the results with different boundary conditions are verified through extensive numerical examples with both periodic and random heterogeneous micro-structures.Also, a consistency test of the method is performed numerically. The results show that the EMsFEM can effectively obtain the macro response of the heterogeneous structures as well as the response in micro-scale,especially under the periodic boundary conditions.
Hong-Wu Zhang·Jing-Kai Wu·Jun L·Zhen-Dong Fu State Key Laboratory of Structural Analysis for Industrial Equipment, Department of Engineering Mechanics, Faculty of Vehicle Engineering and Mechanics, Dalian University of Technology,Dalian 116024,China
By converting an optimal control problem for nonlinear systems to a Hamiltonian system,a symplecitc-preserving method is proposed.The state and costate variables are approximated by the Lagrange polynomial.The state variables at two ends of the time interval are taken as independent variables.Based on the dual variable principle,nonlinear optimal control problems are replaced with nonlinear equations.Furthermore,in the implementation of the symplectic algorithm,based on the 2N algorithm,a multilevel method is proposed.When the time grid is refined from low level to high level,the initial state and costate variables of the nonlinear equations can be obtained from the Lagrange interpolation at the low level grid to improve efficiency.Numerical simulations show the precision and the efficiency of the proposed algorithm in this paper.
研究由宏观上均匀多孔材料制成的结构的优化设计问题,待设计的结构受到给定的外力与温度载荷作用,优化设计旨在给定结构允许使用的材料体积约束下,设计宏观结构的拓扑及多孔材料的微结构,使得结构柔度最小。本文提出了一种宏观结构与微观单胞构型并发优化设计的方法,在此方法中,引入宏观密度和微观密度两类设计变量,在微观层次上采用带惩罚的实心各向同性材料法SIMP(Solid Isotropic Material with Penalty),在宏观层次上采用带惩罚的多孔各向异性材料法PAMP(Porous Anisotropic Material with Penalty),借助均匀化方法建立两个层次间的联系,通过优化方法自动确定实体材料在结构与材料两个层次上的分配,得到优化设计;提供的数值算例检验了本文所提方法及计算模型,并讨论了温度变化、材料体积及计算参数对优化结果的影响。研究结果表明同时考虑热和机械载荷时,采用多孔材料可以降低结构柔顺性。
Some nonlinear dynamic properties of axisymmetric deformation are ex- amined for a spherical membrane composed of a transversely isotropic incompressible Rivlin-Saunders material. The membrane is subjected to periodic step loads at its inner and outer surfaces. A second-order nonlinear ordinary differential equation approximately describing radially symmetric motion of the membrane is obtained by setting the thick- ness of the spherical structure close to one. The qualitative properties of the solutions are discussed in detail. In particular, the conditions that control the nonlinear periodic oscillation of the spherical membrane are proposed. In certain cases, it is proved that the oscillating form of the spherical membrane would present a homoclinic orbit of type ＂∞＂, and the amplitude growth of the periodic oscillation is discontinuous. Numerical results are provided.
