Interrogation of spline surfaces with application to isogeometric design and analysis of lattice-skin structures

DOI10.1016/J.CMA.2019.03.046MaRDI QIDQ2173620zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Xiao Xiao, F. Cirak, M. A. Sabin

Publication date 17 April 2020

Published in Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1810.07982

zbMATH Keywords

3d printingalgebraic geometryimplicit geometryinterrogationisogeometric analysissplines

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Geometric aspects of numerical algebraic geometry (14Q65) Numerical computation using splines (65D07) Computer-aided design (modeling of curves and surfaces) (65D17) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

Abstract: A novel surface interrogation technique is proposed to compute the intersection of curves with spline surfaces in isogeometric analysis. The intersection points are determined in one-shot without resorting to a Newton-Raphson iteration or successive refinement. Surface-curve intersection is required in a wide range of applications, including contact, immersed boundary methods and lattice-skin structures, and requires usually the solution of a system of nonlinear equations. It is assumed that the surface is given in form of a spline, such as a NURBS, T-spline or Catmull-Clark subdivision surface, and is convertible into a collection of B'ezier patches. First, a hierarchical bounding volume tree is used to efficiently identify the B'ezier patches with a convex-hull intersecting the convex-hull of a given curve segment. For ease of implementation convex-hulls are approximated with k-dops (discrete orientation polytopes). Subsequently, the intersections of the identified B'ezier patches with the curve segment are determined with a matrix-based implicit representation leading to the computation of a sequence of small singular value decompositions (SVDs). As an application of the developed interrogation technique the isogeometric design and analysis of lattice-skin structures is investigated. The skin is a spline surface that is usually created in a computer-aided design (CAD) system and the periodic lattice to be fitted consists of unit cells, each containing a small number of struts. The lattice-skin structure is generated by projecting selected lattice nodes onto the surface after determining the intersection of unit cell edges with the surface. For mechanical analysis, the skin is modelled as a Kirchhoff-Love thin-shell and the lattice as a pin-jointed truss. The two types of structures are coupled with a standard Lagrange multiplier approach.

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