Journal
COMPUTER METHODS IN APPLIED MECHANICS AND ENGINEERING
Volume 278, Issue -, Pages 705-728Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA
DOI: 10.1016/j.cma.2014.06.015
Keywords
High-order pdes; Spline basis functions; Martensitic phase transformations; Crack tip stresses; Size effects
Funding
- NSF CDI Type I grant [CHE1027729]
- U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences, Division of Materials Sciences and Engineering [DE-SC0008637]
- Direct For Mathematical & Physical Scien
- Division Of Chemistry [1027729] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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We present, to the best of our knowledge, the first complete three-dimensional numerical solutions to a broad range of boundary value problems for a general theory of finite strain gradient elasticity. We have chosen for our work, Toupin's theory (Toupin, 1962) one of the more general formulations of strain gradient elasticity. Our framework has three crucial ingredients: The first is isogeometric analysis (Hughes et al., 2005), which we have adopted for its straightforward and robust representation of C-1-continuity. The second is a weak treatment of the higher-order Dirichlet boundary conditions in the formulation, which control the development of strain gradients in the solution. The third ingredient is algorithmic (automatic) differentiation, which eliminates the need for linearization by hand of the rather complicated geometric and material nonlinearities in gradient elasticity at finite strains. We present a number of numerical solutions to demonstrate that the framework is applicable to arbitrary boundary value problems in three dimensions. We discuss length scale effects, the role of higher-order boundary conditions, and perhaps most importantly, the relevance of the framework to problems with elastic free energy density functions that are non-convex in strain space. (C) 2014 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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