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| I. A. Brigadnov, "Evaluation of the bearing capacity of nonlinearly elastic bodies," Mech. Solids. 36 (1), 3-10 (2001) |
| Year |
2001 |
Volume |
36 |
Number |
1 |
Pages |
3-10 |
| Title |
Evaluation of the bearing capacity of nonlinearly elastic bodies |
| Author(s) |
I. A. Brigadnov (St. Petersburg) |
| Abstract |
For a nonlinearly elastic solid whose stored energy function has linear
growth with respect to the modulus of the distortion tensor, a variational
problem of limit analysis is formulated and examined numerically. In this
setting, we estimate the limit load, i.e., the magnitude of external
"dead" loads beyond which there is no statically determinate deformed
configuration that would be stable with respect to finite variations of the
mapping. Moreover, we formulate the problem of optimizing the shape of a
nonlinearly elastic body to ensure its maximal bearing capacity under
given external loads.
These are variational problems with
an integral functional of linear growth and their treatment requires
that the set of admissible fields be extended, so as to incorporate
possible discontinuities.
For the variational problem of limit analysis considered
in this paper, we use a partial relaxation based on
a special finite element approximation allowing for fields with
discontinuities of slip type. As a result, the original problem is
reduced to a nonlinear system of algebraic equations whose global
stiffness matrix may happen to be ill-conditioned.
To solve the determining system of algebraic equations numerically,
we use the method of adaptive block relaxation, which is insensitive to
the condition number of the global stiffness matrix.
The results of
numerical experiments given here show the qualitative advantage of the
proposed method as compared with standard methods based on continuous
finite element approximations. |
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| Received |
23 December 1999 |
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