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Speedup of Elastic–Plastic Analysis of Large-scale Model with Crack Using Partitioned Coupling Method with Subcycling Technique

Yasunori Yusa¹, Shinobu Yoshimura¹

1 The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.

Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences 2014, 99(1), 87-104. https://doi.org/10.3970/cmes.2014.099.087

Abstract

To speed up the elastic–plastic analysis of a large-scale model with a crack in which plasticity is observed near the crack, the partitioned coupling method is applied. In this method, the entire analysis model is decomposed into two non-overlapped domains (i.e., global and local domains), and the two domains are analyzed with an iterative method. The cracked local domain is modeled as an elastic–plastic body, whereas the large-scale global domain is modeled as an elastic body. A subcycling technique is utilized for incremental analysis to reduce the number of global elastic analyses. For a benchmark problem with 6 million degrees of freedom, the developed partitioned coupling solver with the subcycling technique was 3.34 times faster than the developed conventional FEM solver.

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