T.Y. Wu1, W.C. Tsai2, J.J. Lee2
CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.17, No.3, pp. 175-214, 2010, DOI:10.3970/cmc.2010.017.175
Abstract The crushing of cellular materials is a highly nonlinear problem, for which geometrical, material, and contact/impact must be treated in one analysis. In order to develop a framework able to solve it efficiently and accurately, in this paper procedures for in-plane crushing analysis of cellular materials using vector form intrinsic finite element (VFIFE) is performed. A beam element of VFIFE is employed to handle large rotation and large deflection in the cell walls. An elastic-plastic material model with mixed hardening rule is adopted to account for material nonlinearity. In addition, an efficient contact/impact algorithm is More >