New methodologies and formulations for the treatment of inelastic problems with BEM/FEM progressive coupling

Author(s)

Arthur Dias Mesquita

• Document type: Doctoral Thesis
• Press: São Carlos.
• Institution: Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC/SBD)
• Defense date: 2002-08-29

Examining board members

Humberto Breves Coda; Henrique Lindenberg Neto; Paulo Sollero; Wilson Sergio Venturini

• Advisor: Humberto Breves Coda

Abstract

New formulations, techniques and procedures are proposed for the treatment of inelastic problems considering progressive coupling. The procedure is quite adequate for the consideration two and three-dimensional interaction problems which involve modifications in geometry and variations of the boundary conditions along the time. This allows the inclusion and retreat of sub-regions and the consideration of special hypothesis for the reinforcement, contributing appropriately for the stiffness of the structure. The viscoelastic and viscoplastic formulations are based in a new methodology and provide with simplicity and elegance quite stable and precise results. The viscous representations for boundary elements are obtained by two ways, with viscous term obtained though domain and boundary integral. The last one permits viscoelastic analysis of solids discretizing only the body\'s boundary, showing to be more appropriate for the treatment of the infinite or semi-infinite regions. The plastic behaviour is taken into account through associative e nonassociative implicit algorithms, whose expressions are obtained in closed way, resulting in a considerable computational economy and a better precision in the non-linear answer. (AU)