Generalized quasicontinuum modeling of metallic lattices with geometrical and material nonlinearity and variability

Chen, Li, Beex, Lars A. A., Berke, Peter Z., Massart, Thierry J. and Bordas, Stéphane P. A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8634-7002 2020. Generalized quasicontinuum modeling of metallic lattices with geometrical and material nonlinearity and variability. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 366 , 112878. 10.1016/j.cma.2020.112878

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Abstract

We propose a generalized quasicontinuum method to model the mechanical response of 3D lattice structures. The method relies on the spatial coupling of fully-resolved domains and coarse-grained domains. In the fully-resolved domain, the full micro-structure is taken into account. In the coarse-grained domain, the kinematics of the micro-structure are individually interpolated based on their connectivity. On top of that, the contributions of the microstructure to the governing equations in the coarse-grained domain are sampled using only a few unit cells. In both domains, geometrical and material variability along the strut can be naturally taken into account using a 3D co-rotational beam finite element with embedded plastic hinges. We verify the approach for BCC lattices, demonstrating that the new method can capture both material and geometrical non-linearities of single struts at a fraction of the cost of a direct numerical simulation.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Engineering Advanced Research Computing @ Cardiff (ARCCA)
Publisher:	Elsevier
ISSN:	0045-7825
Date of Acceptance:	23 January 2020
Last Modified:	17 Mar 2023 16:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/135065

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