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A novel scaled boundary finite element formulation with stabilization and its application to image‐based elastoplastic analysis
Author(s) -
He Ke,
Song Chongmin,
Ooi Ean Tat
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.421
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1097-0207
pISSN - 0029-5981
DOI - 10.1002/nme.5832
Subject(s) - quadtree , finite element method , boundary (topology) , image (mathematics) , algorithm , point (geometry) , computer science , simple (philosophy) , mathematics , mathematical optimization , geometry , artificial intelligence , structural engineering , mathematical analysis , engineering , philosophy , epistemology
Summary Digital images are increasingly being used as input data for computational analyses. This study presents an efficient numerical technique to perform image‐based elastoplastic analysis of materials and structures. The quadtree decomposition algorithm is employed for image‐based mesh generation, which is fully automatic and highly efficient. The quadtree cells are modeled by scaled boundary polytope elements, which eliminate the issue of hanging nodes faced by standard finite elements. A novel, simple, and efficient scaled boundary elastoplastic formulation with stablisation is developed. In this formulation, the return‐mapping calculation is only required to be performed at a single point in a polytope element, which facilitates the computational efficiency of the elastoplastic analysis and simplicity of implementation. Numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed technique for performing the elastoplastic analysis of high‐resolution images.