Journal
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
Volume 268, Issue -, Pages 905-937Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2013.10.021
Keywords
Scaled boundary finite element method; Elasto-plastic; Material nonlinear; Polygon element; Finite element method
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This study presents a novel scaled boundary polygon formulation to model elasto-plastic material responses in structures. The polygons have flexible mesh generation capabilities and are more accurate than standard finite elements, especially for problems with cracks and notches. Shape functions of arbitrary n-sided polygons are constructed using the scaled boundary finite element method. These shape functions are conforming and linearly complete. When modeling a crack, strain singularities are analytically modeled without enrichment. Standard finite element procedures are used to formulate the stiffness matrix and residual load vector. The nonlinear material constitutive matrix and the internal stresses are approximated locally in each polygon by a polynomial function. The stiffness matrix and the residual load vector are matrix power integrals that can be evaluated analytically even when a strain singularity is present. Standard nonlinear equation solvers e.g. the modified Newton-Raphson algorithm are used to obtain the nonlinear response of the structure. The proposed formulation is validated using several numerical benchmarks. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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