The wave finite element method.

Publication date 24 March 2004

beam propagation effect vibrations vibro-impact loading

Introductory exposition (textbooks, tutorial papers, etc.) pertaining to mechanics of deformable solids (74-01) Numerical approximation of solutions of dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H15) Vibrations in dynamical problems in solid mechanics (74H45) Nonlinear waves in solid mechanics (74J30) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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This book is devoted to a new approach to the description of complex mechanical systems. Up to now, the main approach was represented by finite element method (FEM) which offers solutions to most technical problems due to the increasing power of actual computers. But FEM cannot be fitted to rapidly varying processes (explosions, seismic waves) where the propagation effect cannot be neglected, moreover, it can be essential. So, among the actual nonclassical methods, the wave finite element method (WFEM) is of high interest. The author introduced the first ideas in the seventies, and the present book provides a first exposition of WFEM, including the extension of the method to three-dimensional systems. To grasp the underlying ideas, it is useful to recall that in the frame of FEM the description of the system is performed in terms of nodal displecement vector and interpolation matrix which depend on element configuration but do non depend on time. For stationary phenomena the method gives very good results. The present approach (WFEM) can take into account the propagation effect. The solution is calculated step by step. In passing from one step to the next one, the displacements and velocities can be discontinuous whereas the accelerations are continuously varying. In such a way the system is not described as a whole, but by using a smaller set of equations including the nodes where the disturbance is already present. To list the included topics, we give the contents: Introduction; Theory: 1) Foundation of the finite element method; 2) Simulation of simple one-dimensional wave process; 3) Wave propagation in an inelastic rod; 4) Coupled longitudinal-torsional waves in a pre-twisted rod; 5) Bending waves in a beam; 6) One-dimensional waves in elastic continua and structures; 7) Numerical simulation of multidimensional wave process; Applications; 8) Impact loading of a deformable body; 9) Unsteady forced vibrations of solids; 10) Unsteady vibro-impact loading; 11) Oscillations of mechanical systems affected by moving loads; 12) Dynamic loading on a free edge of a solid; 13) Some special problems of solid mechanics; 14) Some special unsteady problems in engineering; Conclusions; References; Appendix. As it is seen, the fundamentals of the new method are given in chapters 1 to 7, whereas some useful applications are presented in chapters 8 to 14. The book is written very clearly, the graphs are excellent, and the reader can grasp the main facts from WFEM. The references are up-to date, most of them belong to the Russian school of mechanics and to the author (since the book is a ``livre d'auteur). The book can serve as a reference text book for the students and researchers in mechanics.

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