An Initial Overview of Iwan Modeling for Mechanical Joints
- Sandia National Laboratories
The structural dynamics modeling of engineering structures must accommodate the energy dissipation due to microslip in mechanical joints. Given the nature of current hardware and software environments, this will require the development of constitutive models for joints that both adequately reproduce the important physics and lend themselves to efficient computational processes. The exploration of the properties of mechanical joints--either through fine resolution finite element modeling or through experiment--is itself an area of research, but some qualitative behavior appears to be established. The work presented here is the presentation of a formulation of idealized elements due to Iwan, that appears capable of reproducing the important joint properties as they are now understood. Further, methods for selecting parameters for that model by joining the results from experiments in regimes of small and large load are developed. The significance of this work is that a reduced order model is presented that is capable of reproducing the important qualitative properties of mechanical joints using only a small number of parameters.
- Research Organization:
- Sandia National Labs., Albuquerque, NM (US); Sandia National Labs., Livermore, CA (US)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC04-94AL85000
- OSTI ID:
- 780307
- Report Number(s):
- SAND2001-0811
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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