A three-dimensional beam element is derived based on the principle of stationary total potential energy for geometrically nonlinear analysis of space frames. A new tangent stiffness matrix, which allows for high order...A three-dimensional beam element is derived based on the principle of stationary total potential energy for geometrically nonlinear analysis of space frames. A new tangent stiffness matrix, which allows for high order effects of element deformations, replaces the conventional incremental secant stiffness matrix. Two deformation stiffness matrices due to the variation of axial force and bending moments are included in the tangent stiffness. They are functions of element deformations and incorporate the coupling among axial, lateral and torsional deformations. A correction matrix is added to the tangent stiffness matrix to make displacement derivatives equivalent to the commutative rotational degrees of freedom. Numerical examples show that the proposed dement is accurate and efficient in predicting the nonlinear behavior, such as axial-torsional and flexural-torsional buckling, of space frames even when fewer elements are used to model a member.展开更多
An element decomposition method with variance strain stabilization(EDM-VSS) is proposed. In the present EDM-VSS, the quadrilateral element is first divided into four sub-triangular cells, and the local strains in sub-...An element decomposition method with variance strain stabilization(EDM-VSS) is proposed. In the present EDM-VSS, the quadrilateral element is first divided into four sub-triangular cells, and the local strains in sub-triangular cells are obtained using linear interpolation function. For each quadrilateral element, the strain of the whole quadrilateral is the weighted average value of the local strains, which means only one integration point is adopted to construct the stiffness matrix. The stabilization item of the stiffness matrix is constructed by variance of the local strains, which can eliminate the instability of the one-point integration formulation and largely increase the accuracy of the element. Compared with conventional full integration quadrilateral element, the EDM-VSS achieves more accurate results and expends much lower computational cost. More importantly, as no mapping or coordinate transformation is involved in the present EDM-VSS, the restriction on the conventional quadrilateral elements can be removed and problem domain can be discretized in more flexible ways. To verify the accuracy and stability of the present formulation, a number of numerical examples are studied to demonstrate the efficiency of the present EDM-VSS.展开更多
文摘A three-dimensional beam element is derived based on the principle of stationary total potential energy for geometrically nonlinear analysis of space frames. A new tangent stiffness matrix, which allows for high order effects of element deformations, replaces the conventional incremental secant stiffness matrix. Two deformation stiffness matrices due to the variation of axial force and bending moments are included in the tangent stiffness. They are functions of element deformations and incorporate the coupling among axial, lateral and torsional deformations. A correction matrix is added to the tangent stiffness matrix to make displacement derivatives equivalent to the commutative rotational degrees of freedom. Numerical examples show that the proposed dement is accurate and efficient in predicting the nonlinear behavior, such as axial-torsional and flexural-torsional buckling, of space frames even when fewer elements are used to model a member.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11472101 and 61232014)Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China(Grant No.2013M531780)the National Laboratory for Electric Vehicles Foundations
文摘An element decomposition method with variance strain stabilization(EDM-VSS) is proposed. In the present EDM-VSS, the quadrilateral element is first divided into four sub-triangular cells, and the local strains in sub-triangular cells are obtained using linear interpolation function. For each quadrilateral element, the strain of the whole quadrilateral is the weighted average value of the local strains, which means only one integration point is adopted to construct the stiffness matrix. The stabilization item of the stiffness matrix is constructed by variance of the local strains, which can eliminate the instability of the one-point integration formulation and largely increase the accuracy of the element. Compared with conventional full integration quadrilateral element, the EDM-VSS achieves more accurate results and expends much lower computational cost. More importantly, as no mapping or coordinate transformation is involved in the present EDM-VSS, the restriction on the conventional quadrilateral elements can be removed and problem domain can be discretized in more flexible ways. To verify the accuracy and stability of the present formulation, a number of numerical examples are studied to demonstrate the efficiency of the present EDM-VSS.
