A GPU-based parallel procedure for nonlinear analysis of complex structures using a coupled FEM/DEM approach

DOI10.1155/2013/618980MaRDI QIDQ474443zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Shihai Li, Guoxin Zhang, Zhaosong Ma, Lei Zhang, Li-Xiang Wang

Publication date 24 November 2014

Published in Mathematical Problems in Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/618980

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Parallel numerical computation (65Y05) Software, source code, etc. for problems pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids (74-04) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

Review text

Summary: This study reports the GPU parallelization of complex three-dimensional software for nonlinear analysis of concrete structures. It focuses on coupled thermomechanical analysis of complex structures. A coupled FEM/DEM approach (CDEM) is given from a fundamental theoretical viewpoint. As the modeling of a large structure by means of FEM/DEM may lead to prohibitive computation times, a parallelization strategy is required. With the substantial development of computer science, a GPU-based parallel procedure is implemented. A comparative study between the GPU and CPU computation results is presented, and the runtimes and speedups are analyzed. The results show that dramatic performance improvements are gained from GPU parallelization.

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Uses Software

• CUDAEASY
• CUDA

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