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Tese de Doutorado 2021

Hybrid-trefftz stress element applied to J-integral and stress intensity factor prediction with coarse meshes

Autor

Felipe Alvarez Businaro

Orientador

Área de Concentração

Projeto Aeronáutico, Estruturas e Sistemas Aeroespaciais

Data de Defesa

29/06/2021

Número da Tese

77880

Resumo

A new application of the Hybrid-Trefftz finite element is introduced for the computation of J-integral and stress intensity factors of three-dimensional planar cracks using coarse meshes, in particular in the crack vicinity. By using a nodeless framework, stresses in the domain of elements can be approximated by using high degree polynomial functions of simple and hierarchical construction, namely the Homogeneous Harmonic Polynomials, with no specific terms added for singular stress modelling. This set of harmonic functions derived from Pascal's pyramid is complete for any approximation degree, a desired attribute for this finite element formulation. Since the hybrid-Trefftz formulation constraints the displacements in the domain to satisfy all field equations locally, both stress and displacement field quantities are directly related in the element domain, being ready to be used to calculate the J-integral and stress intensity factors. An extensive comparison is presented using two- and three-dimensional predictions for stress intensity factors, along with h- and p- refinement of the models. Results for single and mixed-mode crack opening cases are compared with benchmark solutions present in the literature, showing accurate results in the mid surface and through the thickness of the models.

Palavras-chave

Análise de tensão Método de Trefftz Método de elementos finitos Estruturas tridimensionais Polinômios Engenharia estrutural