A simple history-dependent remeshing technique to increase finite element model stability in elastic surface deformations

DOI10.1016/J.CAM.2021.113876MaRDI QIDQ2068633zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Jessica R. Crawshaw, Jennifer A. Flegg, J. M. Osborne

Publication date 20 January 2022

Published in Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.06756

zbMATH Keywords

history-dependent remeshing variablelarge elastic deformationmesh distorsiontransfer technique

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Mesh generation, refinement, and adaptive methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N50) Nonlinear elasticity (74B20) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

Abstract: In this paper, we present and validate a simple adaptive surface remeshing technique to transfer history dependent variables from an old distorting mesh to a new mesh during finite element simulations of elastic surface deformation. This technique allows us to reduce the error arising from excessive mesh distortion whilst preserving information about the initial configuration of the mesh and the history dependent variables. The transfer technique presented here constructs the initial configuration of the new mesh by considering the distortion incurred by the elements of the old mesh and projecting backward in time. Using this new initial configuration, the stress and strain over the new mesh can be easily calculated. After presenting the necessary steps to reconstruct the initial configuration, we show that this relatively simple transfer technique adds stability to finite element simulations and reduces the spatial error and the strain error across the domain. The novel transfer technique presented in this paper is easy to implement and provides a simple strategy to add stability to simulations undergoing large deformations.

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• Consistent remeshing and transfer for a three dimensional enriched mixed formulation of plasticity and non-local damage

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