{"title":"Spherulite Microstructure Formation Simulation Based on Effect of Molding Conditions on Polylactic Acid","authors":"H. Liqin, K. Tatsuno, Y. Aoyagi","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.107","url":null,"abstract":". This study investigates a simulation model predicting spherulite microstructure formation based on experimental observations. The crystallization process of polylactic acid is observed at different molding temperatures by in-situ observation, and the rate of spherulite formation and growth is estimated. Furthermore, according to the Turnbull-Fisher primary nucleation model and the Lauritzen-Hoffman secondary nucleation model, Monte Carlo simulations of spherulite microstructure formation are performed based on the obtained experimental results. The validity of the method is verified by a comparison of the simulated and the experimental results.","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"6 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132088244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Bosch, M. Nitzlader, T. Burghardt, M. Bachmann, H. Binz, L. Blandini, M. Kreimeyer
{"title":"Effective range of integrated fluidic actuators in structural elements","authors":"M. Bosch, M. Nitzlader, T. Burghardt, M. Bachmann, H. Binz, L. Blandini, M. Kreimeyer","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.046","url":null,"abstract":". High demand for living and working space as well as the corresponding infrastructure, caused by a growing population and increasing prosperity worldwide, leads to increased consumption of mineral resources. This is accompanied by high usage of grey energy and a high output of greenhouse gas emissions. Adaptive structures represent a promising approach for mass and resource savings. Through the interaction of actuators, sensors and control units, the structure can adapt to the external loads to reduce stresses and deformations. As a result, the building material required can be reduced. For actuators integrated into slabs, new challenges arise due to the multi-axial load transfer. In particular, the aim is to achieve the largest possible effective range of the applied moment to reduce the number of actuators required. One approach is to optimize the geometry of the force-introducing surfaces inside the structural element. This paper presents a study about the correlations of the geometric parameters using numerical simulations. This enables the pre-dimensioning of the actuator and is thus a first step in its design.","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126437765","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Analysis of Combat Helmet Performance Integrating Blast Loading and Blunt Impact through Simulation","authors":"G. Tan, A. Bagchi","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.020","url":null,"abstract":". The mild traumatic brain injury (mTBI) is one of the most common injuries to service members in recent conflicts. Combat helmets have been designed and evaluated to perform against ballistic and blunt impact threats, but not blast threats. An optimal design of combat helmet considering blunt, ballistic impacts and blast effects is a key requirement to improve the head protection against mTBI. Combat helmets are usually designed based on costly and time consuming laboratory tests. Computational models can offer insights in understanding the force transmission through the head-helmet system into the brain and underlying mechanism of brain injury, and help the development of effective protective design. We developed a design approach integrating the effect of both blast and blunt threats to a helmet system by utilizing multi-physics computational tools and representative human head and helmet models. The high-fidelity computational models were used to capture the dynamic response of the composite shell, suspension pads, retention straps and head. Multiple helmet system configurations subjected to blast and blunt loadings with a combination of loading magnitude and orientation were considered to quantify their influence on brain biomechanical response. Parametric studies were carried out to assess energy absorption for different suspension geometry and material morphology for different loadings. The resulting brain responses in terms of pressure, stress, strain, and strain rate as well as the head acceleration were used with published injury criteria to characterize the helmet system performance through a single metric for each threat type. Approaches to combine single-threat metrics to allow aggregating performance against multiple threats were discussed.","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123021697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical Evaluation of Bell-Shaped Proportional Damping Model for Softening Structures","authors":"C. Lee, T. Chang","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.083","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.083","url":null,"abstract":". A new type of proportional damping models, called bell-shaped proportional damping model, has recently been proposed. This new model has not only addressed the spurious damping forces, but also maintained the same order of computational efficiency as the Rayleigh model. This model has also been further improved such that, by using the tangent stiffness approach, it becomes suitable for structures experiencing softening response with negative stiffness. The improved model allows users to have flexible control of modal damping ratio for all interested frequency intervals, including those associated with negative stiffness. In this study, the performance of bell-shaped damping model is evaluated numerically in a response history analysis of a multi-storey building under seismic loading. The results show that, compared to the Rayleigh model, the bell-shaped model performs excellently in terms of always giving desirable positive energy dissipation even when the structure is experiencing softening response.","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122263589","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The non-smooth tale of Accumoli civic tower","authors":"M. Schiavoni, E. Giordano, F. Clementi","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.113","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.113","url":null,"abstract":". In this paper, advanced numerical models are used to study the progressive damage of a historic building, namely the Palazzo of Podestà and the Civic Tower of Accumoli (central Italy). The dynamic behaviour of the structure is analyzed following important seismic events such as those that occurred in 2016-2017. Discontinuous and continuous approaches are used. In the formers, the masonry response is represented both with Discrete Element Method (DEM) and the Non-Smooth Contact Dynamic (NSCD) method; in the latter the masonry non linearity is replicated using the Concrete Damage Plasticity (CDP) model. The numerical results showed a good correspondence of all the approaches with the real damage suffered by the structure after the seismic sequence.","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125103693","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
P. Karakitsios, P. Kolios, A. Leontaris, G. Karaiskos
{"title":"An Alternative Approach for Inelastic Static Isogeometric Analysis and 3D Design with Advanced Spline Techniques with Geomiso TNL: a New Hybrid Cloud-based CAD/CAE Software","authors":"P. Karakitsios, P. Kolios, A. Leontaris, G. Karaiskos","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.017","url":null,"abstract":". The recently developed cloud-based platform www.geomiso.cloud is introduced to help engineers and industries make effective use of inelastic static isogeometric analysis and design with advanced spline techniques. The new Geomiso TNL software combines IGA and cloud computing, one of the fastest growing fields in IT industry. Cloud-based IGA represents the future of product engineering, soon to become an industry standard. This program fully integrates the industrial design with its computational real-time testing, while it is seen to handle demanding inelastic applications in structural mechanics remarkably well, as the numerical examples exhibit significantly improved accuracy with shortened computational time. It is argued that Geomiso TNL is a new, more efficient, alternative to FEA software packages. This is the first time ever such a cloud-based program has been developed.","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"164 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114283302","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Bayesian Model updating of Linear dynamic systems using complex modal data","authors":"E. Henikish, S. Bansal, R. Kiran","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.023","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.023","url":null,"abstract":": In the lifetime of structures, they may be exposed to damage that deviates their parameters to a new uncertain state. To predict these parameters, they must be updated using experimental data through various model updating methods. Among model updating methods, the Bayesian approach enables the exploration of all the probable models. Many approaches are available, like those that require the solution of the eigenvalue problem and those that do not require the resolution of the eigenvalue problem. Most existing studies have assumed proportional damping, which gives real modal data, which is not the case always. In this paper, a new Bayesian model updating methodology is proposed based on introducing system mode shapes, damping ratios and natural frequencies as additional uncertain parameters. A dynamic condensation technique is used to restrain the model updating problem to work on the observed degrees of freedom (DOF) field only. To decrease the number of uncertain parameters, system mode shapes are integrated out, and Transitional Monte Carlo Markov Chain (TMCMC) is used to sample from the posterior probability density function. The proposed approach has been applied to the 3-storey shear building model. Results show that the proposed methodology can predict the updated structural parameters in many cases, like the cases where the number of observed modes is greater than the number of observed DOF and if the observed modes are not the lowest-frequency modes.","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122394617","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling and validation of Selective Laser sintering of PA12","authors":"K. Meinert, M. Bayat, J. Hattel, D. Pedersen","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.071","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.071","url":null,"abstract":". One of the larger growing fields within additive manufacturing is the selective laser sintering process of semi-crystalline polymer powders. The powder is locally fused at certain areas, due to the energy output of a laser. This method allows for rapid production of complex parts, which are well suited for prototyping. The overall accuracy and stability of the process along with part properties are highly related to the process parameter. A better control of these parameters will therefore optimize the process even further. The current paper propos a numerical modelling approach and the model makes it possible, to analyze the influence of the laser-related input parameters concerning the temperature distribution and size of the melt pool. For the validation, certain outputs from the model are compared to the ones found from experimental single-line track data, where the melt pool geometry can be compared to the numerical measurements.","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"18 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"132136602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time-domain Sound Field Analysis Using the Finite Element Method and the Fast Multipole Boundary Element Method","authors":"K. Fukazawa, H. Yoshikawa, K. Kashiyama","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.116","url":null,"abstract":"1 Graduate School of Civil, Human and Environmental Engineering, Chuo University Kasuga 1-13-27, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8521, JAPAN a17.kfgc@g.chuo-u.ac.jp 2 Graduate School of Informatics, Kyoto University Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, JAPAN yoshikawa.hitoshi.5u@kyoto-u.ac.jp 3 Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Chuo University Kasuga 1-13-27, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8521, JAPAN kaz@civil.chuo-u.ac.jp","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"116 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133540582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Modelling landslide debris flow with entrainment: development and validation","authors":"I. Li, E. Wong, E. Sze","doi":"10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.072","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.23967/wccm-apcom.2022.072","url":null,"abstract":". The volume and mobility of a debris flow could increase with distance travelled as it has the potential to entrain a substantial amount of channel-bed material along its travel path. This entrainment effect renders the debris flow more devastating to downslope populations and facilities. Over the past two decades, the Geotechnical Engineering Office (GEO) of Hong Kong has expended considerable effort to develop debris mobility modelling tools for use in routine engineering practice for forward prediction purposes. Recently, GEO has completed a study to enhance an in-house debris mobility code. Physical parameters which can be estimated from the field by engineers or geologists are incorporated in the code to predict entrainment effects in a simple and rational manner. This allows the modelling of varying entrainment potential along a debris flow path. The code has been checked against simplified analytical solutions and validated against field observations in a major historical landslide event involving high-mobility debris flows in Hong Kong. The numerical modelling results indicated that simulated entrainment volume and mobility characteristics are broadly consistent with geological field mapping records.","PeriodicalId":429847,"journal":{"name":"15th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM-XV) and 8th Asian Pacific Congress on Computational Mechanics (APCOM-VIII)","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1900-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116097361","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}