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Applications of a 2-D moving finite element formulation to elastic/viscoplastic dynamic fracture analysis

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OSTI ID:5860749
 [1]; ;  [2]
  1. Royal Inst. of Tech., Stockholm (Sweden). Dept. of Solid Mechanics
  2. Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)

Current efforts to resolve the near crack tip fields in elastic/viscoplastic materials using finite element methods have failed to achieve a finite non-zero energy flow to the crack tip. Motivated by these difficulties, a moving element formulation incorporating a variable order singular element to enhance the local crack tip description is presented. The moving mesh zone is embedded in a finite global mesh to provide a functional tool for the analysis of dynamic crack growth experiments. The necessary elasto-dynamic formulations have been previously implemented in a transient finite element program DYNCRACK and checked against known analytical solutions. These results have encouraged an attempt to include Perzyna's elastic-viscoplastic model in the formulation. However, the introduction of non-linear history dependent material behavior into a moving element scheme requires a method to interpolate related field quantities to new Gauss point positions for each time step. The following summary of numerical procedures outlines the approach taken to develop a transient elastic/viscoplastic moving finite element formulation. Results for a standard test problem are then compared to those obtained using the nodal relaxation technique. Further development of the code is discussed with respect to applications to dynamic fracture experiments.

Research Organization:
Oak Ridge National Lab., TN (USA)
Sponsoring Organization:
NRC; Nuclear Regulatory Commission, Washington, DC (USA)
DOE Contract Number:
AC05-84OR21400
OSTI ID:
5860749
Report Number(s):
CONF-910817-10; ON: DE91009930
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English