Doboku Gakkai Ronbunshu
Online ISSN : 1882-7187
Print ISSN : 0289-7806
ISSN-L : 0289-7806
STRESS ANALYSIS USING ELASTICALLY HOMOGENEOUS RIGID-BODY-SPRING NETWORKS
John BOLANDERKenji YOSHITAKEJeffrey THOMURE
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1999 Volume 1999 Issue 633 Pages 25-32

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A method is introduced for extracting tensorial stress measures from rigid-body-spring networks with random geometry. Stress analysis of a uniformly stretched material indicates that rigid-body-spring networks can be made elastically homogeneous provided two basic conditions are met: 1) network geometry is defined by a Voronoi diagram, and 2) the network degrees of freedom are defined at the Voronoi cell nuclei. For more general loadings, accuracy of the stress retrieval algorithm is demonstrated through comparisons with finite element analysis results, where the finite element mesh is based on the corresponding Delaunay triangulation of the domain.
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