VORONOI APPLIED ELEMENT METHOD

Voronoi Applied Element Method (VAEM) :

the new version of applied element method containing Voronoi shape element.

Benefits:
1) 2) 3) 4) Easier fit non-rectangular boundary Element size variation Pre-existing weak plane Implicit Poissons ratio

Elastic:
0 -5 -4 -3 -2 -1 -5000 0 1 2 3 4 5

Vor-ver

-10000

Vertical stress

Rec

1 3 2

-15000

Vor-med

D = 8 unit E = 2.14 x107 =0

y x

-20000
Exact
Vor-small Vor-ver

-25000

Exact solution: y =
-30000

2P 4d 4 [1 2 ] (d + 4 x 2 ) 2 d

Rec Vor-hor Vor-small Vor-med

Distance from center

Large deformation: Additional procedure VAEM Stiffness Matrix:

y

AEM

1) Update the location of the element node 2) Calculate the geometrical residuals as {RG}={f}-{Fm} 4) Take into account the geometrical residual [K]{u} = {r}+{RG}

1 u3 u1 u2 p 2 y x (a) u6 u4 u3 u5 1 u2 u1

u6 2

u5 u4
0

L
0

(b)

-20
vor-dx vor-dy analytic-dx analytic-dy

-15

-10

-5

-100 -200 -300 -400 -500 -600 -700 -800

Analytic formulation

Displacment (m)

Two-particle assemblage and their degrees of freedom (a) global coordinate (b) local coordinate 1 (xc1,yc1) p p 2 (xc2,yc2) ti+1

P=

EI [ L2

/2

d 1 sin 2 ( / 2)sin 2 2
/2

]2

x = 2L

-900

ti

-1000

Force (kN)

P / EI 2sin( / 2) y = P / EI

1 sin 2 ( / 2) sin 2 d ]

Fracture:
2
Compression boundary Compression - shear boundary

c Tension-shear boundary
VAEM AEM

Two-particle assemblage after deformed

Normal and shear springs at element boundary

Eo/100 Eo

Steel spring

By writing the springs strain energy and apply Castigiano theorem, we obtains: Stiffness matrix [K]=
1 0

, compression

, tension
(b-1)

[B] [D][B]d S
T

where [B]= 0 1 ( x x ) 0 1 c1 and [D]= n 0 kn

k 0

( y yc1 )

1 0 ( y yc 2 ) ( x xc 2 )

Meguro Lab., IIS