TOPOLOGICAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS FOR NONLINEAR HYPERELASTICITY PROBLEMS

Authors

  • CARLOS EDUARDO LEITE PEREIRA UNIVERSIDADE DE CAMPINAS
  • MARCO LúCIO BITTENCOURT UNIVERSIDADE DE CAMPINAS

Keywords:

TOPOLOGICAL OPTIMIZATION, FINITE ELEMENTS, NONLINEAR ELASTICITY, HYPERELASTICITY,

Abstract

THE TOPOLOGICAL SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS (TSA) IS REPRESENTED BY A SCALAR FUNCTION, DENOMINATED TOPOLOGICAL DERIVATIVE (TD), THAT GIVES FOR EACH POINT OF THE DOMAIN THE SENSITIVITY OF A GIVEN COST FUNCTION WHEN A INFINITESIMAL HOLE IS CREATED. ITS APPLICATIONS TO LAPLACE, POISSON, HELMOLTZ, NAVIER, STOKES AND NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS CAN BE FOUND IN THE LITERATURE. IN THE PRESENT WORK, AN APPROXIMATED TD EXPRESSION APPLIED TO NONLINEAR HYPERELASTICITY PROBLEMS IS OBTAINED BY A NUMERICAL ASYMPTOTIC ANALYSIS. THE COST FUNCTION IS THE TOTAL POTENTIAL ENERGY FUNCTIONAL. THE WEAK FORM OF STATE EQUATION IS THE CONSTRAINT AND THE TOTAL LAGRANGIAN FORMULATION USED. NUMERICAL RESULTS OF THE PRESENTED APPROACH ARE CONSIDERED FOR HYPERELASTIC PLANE PROBLEMS.

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2010-12-21

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