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Generalised tangent stabilised nonlinear elasticity: An automated framework for controlling material and geometric instabilities
Roman Poya 
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Rogelio Ortigosa ,
Antonio Gil ,
Theodore Kim ,
Javier Bonet
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Rogelio Ortigosa ,
Antonio Gil ,
Theodore Kim ,
Javier Bonet
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume: 436, Start page: 117701
Swansea University Authors:
Antonio Gil , Javier Bonet
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DOI (Published version): 10.1016/j.cma.2024.117701
Abstract
Tangent stabilised large strain isotropic elasticity was recently proposed by Poya et al. (2023) wherein by working directly with principal stretches the entire eigenstructure of constitutive and geometric/initial stiffness terms were found in closed-form, giving fresh insights into exact convexity...
| Published in: | Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering |
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| ISSN: | 0045-7825 |
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Elsevier BV
2025
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| URI: | https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa68628 |
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Tangent stabilised large strain isotropic elasticity was recently proposed by Poya et al. (2023) wherein by working directly with principal stretches the entire eigenstructure of constitutive and geometric/initial stiffness terms were found in closed-form, giving fresh insights into exact convexity conditions of highly non-convex functions in discrete settings. Consequently, owing to these newly found tangent eigenvalues an analytic tangent stabilisation was proposed (for common non-convex strain energies that exhibit material and/or geometric instabilities) bypassing incumbent numerical approaches routinely used in nonlinear finite element analysis. This formulation appears to be extremely robust for quasi-static simulation of complex deformations even with no load increments and time stepping while still capturing instabilities (similar to dynamic analysis) automatically in ways that are infeasible for path-following techniques in practice. In this work, we generalise the notion of tangent stabilised elasticity to virtually all known invariant formulations of nonlinear elasticity. We show that, closedform eigen-decomposition of tangents is easily available irrespective of invariant formulation or integrity basis. In particular, we work out closed-form tangent eigensystems for isotropic Total Lagrangian deformation gradient ()-based and right Cauchy–Green ()-based as well as Updated Lagrangian left Cauchy–Green ()-based formulations and present their exact convexity conditions postulated in terms of their corresponding tangent and geometric stiffness eigenvalues. In addition, we introduce the notion of geometrically stabilised polyconvex large strain elasticity for models that are materially stable but exhibit geometric instabilities for whom we construct their geometric stiffness in a spectrally-decomposed form analytically. We further extend this framework to the case of transverse isotropy where once again, closedform tangent eigensystems are found for common transversely isotropic invariants. In this context, we augment the recent work on mixed variational formulations in principal stretches for deformable and rigid bodies, by presenting a mixed variational formulation for models with arbitrarily directed inextensible fibres. Since, tangent stabilisation unleashes an unparallelled capability for extreme deformations new numerical techniques are required to guarantee element-inversion-safe analysis. To this end, we propose a discretisation-aware load-stepping together with a line search scheme for a robust industry-grade implementation of tangent stabilised elasticity over general polyhedral meshes. Extensive comparisons with path-following techniques provide conclusive evidence that utilising tangent stabilised elasticity can offer both faster and automated results. |
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Faculty of Science and Engineering |
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Grant PID2022-141957OA-C22 funded by MICIU/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 and by “ERDF A way of making Europe”.
Autonomous Community of the Region of Murcia, Spain through the programme for the development of scientific and technical research by competitive groups (21996/PI/22), included in the Regional Program for the Promotion of Scientific and Technical Research of Fundacion Seneca - Agencia de Ciencia Tecnologia de la Region de Murcia.
Financial support received through the UK Defence, Science and Technology Laboratory, grants: DSTLX1000160466R and RQ0000028640. |
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