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    This document summarizes a conference paper about developing accurate nonlinear structural models from linear models using an implicit corotational formulation. The authors present a method using the polar decomposition theorem and corotational description of motion to recover accurate nonlinear beam and plate models from their corresponding linear models. They show that this approach provides an automated way to leverage information from linear analyses in nonlinear analyses. The method is demonstrated for planar and spatial beam and thin plate models, recovering classical models available in literature. Numerical tests using path-following and Koiter's asymptotic analysis show the high accuracy of the proposed approach.

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    8th. World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM8)
    5th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS 2008)
    June 30 –July 5, 2008
    Venice, Italy

    Elastic postbuckling analysis: how to recover accurate nonlinear structural


    models from the linear ones

    *Raffaele Casciaro1 , Giovanni Garcea, Antonio Madeo


    1 Università della Calabria
    Rende (CS), Italy
    rcasciaro@labmec.unical.it,
    www.labmec.unical.it

    Key Words: Structural instability, nonlinear models, corotational description, asymptotic analysis.

    ABSTRACT

    The asymptotic method, based on the implementation of the Koiter’s approach to nonlinear instability
    within a finite element numerical context, represents a powerful tool for the analysis of geometrically
    nonlinear structures, which is able to provide accurate and reliable results through a fast computational
    scheme [1]. Because it make use of a fourth–order expansion of the energy, it however needs both the
    structural modeling and its finite element discretization to be also, at least, fourth–order accurate. This
    requirement is not satisfied by current nonlinear modelings for beams and plates which are generally
    only second order accurate, so their use can noticeably reduce the results accuracy. Conversely accu-
    rate (objective) models are too complex to be implemented in a finite element context or simply not
    allowable.
    We will show that the implicit corotational formulation [2] can easily overpass this drawback by pro-
    viding an automatic method for recovering accurate nonlinear models starting from the corresponding
    linear ones. The method is based on the polar decomposition theorem and the corotational description
    of motion [3], which is directly applied at the continuum level, following Biot [4]. The continuum body
    is thought of as subdivided in small regions, with a corotational reference system for each one that
    filter its average rigid motion. The accuracy increases with a reduction in the region size and the model
    become exact by a suitable limit process.
    In the analysis of slender structures, undergoing large rotations and small strains, by referring to the
    linear stress solution as Biot’s tensor in corotational frame and using a mixed variational formulation,
    we obtain an automated way of using the information gained by the linear analysis in the nonlinear
    context. Since linearized solution are always available even for complex beams, plates and shells, it
    is easy to obtain, by this way, the corresponding nonlinear models in a form convenient for numerical
    implementations.
    The theoretical features and some tutorial implementation of the implicit corotational method are pre-
    sented here regarding some implementation to planar and spatial beams and thin plates models. In
    these simple context, the methodology and the correctness of the proposed approach appear clearly.
    In particular for simplified 3D beam and thin plates we recover classical models already available in
    literature [5]. Finally, the results of a numerical testing performed through both path-following and
    Koiter’s asymptotic analysis are reported and compared, show the great accuracy provided by proposed
    approach.

    REFERENCES

    [1] R. Casciaro. “Computational Asymptotic Post–Buckling Analysis of Slender Elastic Struc-


    tures”. CISM Courses and Lectures, NO. 470, SpringerWien, New-York, 2005.
    [2] G. Garcea, A. Madeo. “Rational strain measures - The implicit corotational method”. ECCM
    - 2006 Lisbon.
    [3] B. Nour-Omid, C.C.Rankin “Finite rotation analysis and consistent linearization using pro-
    jectors”. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 93, 353-384, 1991.
    [4] Maurice A.Biot. “Mechanics of Incremental Deformations”. J. Wiley & Sons, New-York,
    1995.
    [5] J.C. Simo, L.Vu-Quoc, “A three-dimensional finite-strain rod model. Part II: Computational
    aspects”. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 58, 79-116, 1986.

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