• 제목/요약/키워드: discrete element modeling

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Assessment of computational performance for a vector parallel implementation: 3D probabilistic model discrete cracking in concrete

  • Paz, Carmen N.M.;Alves, Jose L.D.;Ebecken, Nelson F.F.
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • 제2권5호
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    • pp.345-366
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    • 2005
  • This work presents an assessment of the computational performance of a vector-parallel implementation of probabilistic model for concrete cracking in 3D. This paper shows the continuing efforts towards code optimization as reported in earlier works Paz, et al. (2002a,b and 2003). The probabilistic crack approach is based on the direct Monte Carlo method. Cracking is accounted by means of 3D interface elements. This approach considers that all nonlinearities are restricted to interface elements modeling cracks. The heterogeneity governs the overall cracking behavior and related size effects on concrete fracture. Computational kernels in the implementation are the inexact Newton iterative driver to solve the non-linear problem and a preconditioned conjugate gradient (PCG) driver to solve linearized equations, using an element by element (EBE) strategy to compute matrix-vector products. In particular the paper analyzes code behavior using OpenMP directives in parallel vector processors (PVP), such as the CRAY SV1 and CRAY T94. The impact of the memory architecture on code performance, and also some strategies devised to circumvent this issue are addressed by numerical experiment.

접촉면 처리 방식에 따른 석탑의 내진 특성 평가 (Seismic Behavior Characteristics of Stone Pagoda According to Contact Surface Types)

  • 김호수;김동관;원태호;전건우
    • 한국공간구조학회논문집
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    • 제19권3호
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    • pp.41-50
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    • 2019
  • The stone pagoda continued to be damaged by weathering and corrosion over time, and natural disasters such as earthquake are accelerating the destruction of cultural properties. Stone pagoda has discontinuous structure behavior and is very vulnerable to the seismic load acting in lateral direction. It is necessary to analyze various design variables as the contact surface characteristics play an important role in the dynamic behavior of stone pagodas. For this purpose, contact surface characteristics of stone pagoda can be classified according to surface roughness and filler type, and representative model is selected and structural modeling and analysis are performed using the discrete element method. Also, the seismic load according to the repetition period is calculated and the dynamic analysis is performed considering the discontinuous characteristics of the stone pagoda. Finally, the seismic behavior characteristics can be analyzed by the evaluation of stresses, displacements and structural safety.

Numerical modeling of concrete conveying capacity of screw conveyor based on DEM

  • Yu, Wenda;Zhang, Ke;Li, Dong;Zou, Defang;Zhang, Shiying
    • Computers and Concrete
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    • 제29권 6호
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    • pp.361-374
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    • 2022
  • On the premise of ensuring that the automatic and quantitative discharging function of concrete conveyors is met, the accuracy of the weight forecast by the mathematical model of the screw conveying volume is improved, and the error of the weight of the concrete parts and the accumulation thickness is reduced. In this paper, the discrete element method (DEM) is used to simulate the macroscopic flow of concrete. Using the concrete discrete element model, the size of the screw conveyor is set, and establish the response model between the influencing factors (process and structure) and the concrete mass flow rate according to the design points of the screw discharging experiment. The nonlinear data fitting method is used to obtain the volumetric efficiency function under the influence of process and structural factors, and the traditional screw conveying volume model is improved. The mass flow rate of concrete predicted by the improved mathematical model of screw conveying volume is consistent with the test results. The model can accurately describe the conveying process of concrete and achieve the purpose of improving the accuracy of forecasting the weight of discharged concrete.

Discrete element modeling of strip footing on geogrid-reinforced soil

  • Sarfarazi, Vahab;Tabaroei, Abdollah;Asgari, Kaveh
    • Geomechanics and Engineering
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    • 제29권4호
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    • pp.435-449
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    • 2022
  • In this paper, unreinforced and geogrid-reinforced soil foundations were modeled by discrete element method and this performed under surface strip footing loads. The effects of horizontal position of geogrid, vertical position, thickness, number, confining pressure have been investigated on the footing settlement and propagation of tensile force along the geogrids. Also, interaction between rectangular tunnel and strip footing with and without presence of geogrid layer has been analyzed. Experimental results of the literature were used to validation of relationships between the numerically achieved footing pressure-settlement for foundations of reinforced and unreinforced soil. Models and micro input parameters which used in the numerical modelling of reinforced and unreinforced soil tunnel were similar to parameters which were used in soil foundations. Model dimension was 1000 mm* 600 mm. Normal and shear stiffness of soils were 5*105 and 2.5 *105 N/m, respectively. Normal and shear stiffness of geogrid were 1*109 and 1*109 N/m, respectively. Loading rate was 0.001 mm/sec. Micro input parameters used in numerical simulation gain by try and error. In addition of the quantitative tensile force propagation along the geogrids, the footing settlements were visualized. Due to collaboration of three layers of geogrid reinforcements the bearing capacity of the reinforced soil tunnel was greatly improved. In such practical reinforced soil formations, the qualitative displacement propagations of soil particles in the soil tunnel and the quantitative vertical displacement propagations along the soil layers/geogrids represented the geogrid reinforcing impacts too.

Aeroelastic analysis of bridges using FEM and moving grids

  • Selvam, R. Panneer;Govindaswamy, S.;Bosch, Harold
    • Wind and Structures
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    • 제5권2_3_4호
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    • pp.257-266
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    • 2002
  • In the recent years flow around bridges are investigated using computer modeling. Selvam (1998), Selvam and Bosch (1999), Frandsen and McRobie (1999) used finite element procedures. Larsen and Walther (1997) used discrete vorticity procedure. The aeroelastic instability is a major criterion to be checked for long span bridges. If the wind speed experienced by a bridge is greater than the critical wind speed for flutter, then the bridge fails due to aeroelastic instability. Larsen and Walther (1997) computed the critical velocity for flutter using discrete vortex method similar to wind tunnel procedures. In this work, the critical velocity for flutter will be calculated directly (free oscillation procedure) similar to the approaches reported by Selvam et al. (1998). It is expected that the computational time required to compute the critical velocity using this approach may be much shorter than the traditional approach. The computed critical flutter velocity of 69 m/s is in reasonable comparison with wind tunnel measurement. The no flutter and flutter conditions are illustrated using the bridge response in time.

Efficacy of CFRP configurations for shear of RC beams: experimental and NLFE

  • Shuraim, Ahmed B.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제39권3호
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    • pp.361-382
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    • 2011
  • This paper presents the results of an investigation on shear strengthening of RC beams externally reinforced with CFRP composite. A total of six full-scale beams of four CFRP strengthened and two unstrengthened were tested in the absence of internal stirrups in the shear span. The strengthening configurations contained two styles: discrete uniformly spaced strips and customized wide strips over B-regions. The composite systems provided an increase in ultimate strength as compared to the unstrengthened beams. Among the three layouts that had the same area of CFRP, the highest contribution was provided by the customized layout that targeted the B-regions. A comparative study of the experimental results with published empirical equations was conducted in order to evaluate the assumed effective strains. The empirical equations were found to be unconservative. Nonlinear finite element (NLFE) models were developed for the beams. The models agreed with test results that targeting the B-region was more effective than distributing the same CFRP area in a discrete strip style over shear spans. Moreover, the numerical models predicted the contribution of different configurations better than the empirical equations.

유도홈을 이용한 효과적인 수압파쇄 모델연구 (A Study on the Model for Effective Hydraulic Fracturing by Using Guide Hole)

  • 문홍주;신성렬;임종세;정우근;장원일
    • 터널과지하공간
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    • 제24권6호
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    • pp.440-448
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    • 2014
  • 수압파쇄 기술은 가스나 석유, 지열 등 에너지자원의 회수율을 향상시키기 위해 다양한 분야에서 응용되고 있으며 수압파쇄 메커니즘 규명 및 응용분야에 대한 연구는 꾸준히 진행되어 왔다. 본 연구에서는 효과적인 수압파쇄를 위하여 실제 현장과 유사한 상황을 구현할 수 있는 축소모형실험을 통해 유도홈의 개수에 따른 수압파쇄시 균열발생 압력을 분석하기 위하여 수압파쇄 시험 장치를 구축하여 수압파쇄 시험을 실시하였다. 또한 그 결과를 토대로 물성과 역학적인 특성을 취득하여 3차원 개별 요소 프로그램인 3DEC을 이용한 수치해석적 모델링 값과 비교 분석함으로써 신뢰성 있는 결과를 도출하고자 하였다. 그 결과 유도홈을 이용할 경우 효과적인 균열 발생이 가능할 것으로 사료된다.

대심도 지하공동에 발생하는 암반의 팽창 및 스폴링 현상 모델링 (Modeling of rock dilation and spalling in an underground opening at depth)

  • 조남각;이용주
    • 한국터널지하공간학회 논문집
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    • 제12권1호
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    • pp.31-41
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    • 2010
  • 본 연구에서는 실험 및 수치해석적인 접근방법을 통하여 대심도 과지압 구간에서 발생하는 암반의 스폴링(spalling) 및 팽창모드에 대한 모델링 기법을 연구하였다. 이에 대한 실험적 접근 방법으로서 축 방향 압축을 받는 직사각형 인공암석보(beam)에 4점 휨 시험을 결합한 축방향 압축 휨 시험을 수행하여 대심도 지하공간의 응력모드와 유사한 조건 하에서의 암석의 균열 팽창 및 스폴링 과정을 고찰하였다. 또한, 수치해석적 접근방법으로서 기존의 연속체 해석으로는 모사하기 힘든 암석의 균열과정 및 팽창특성을 개별 입자해석 프로그램인 PFC2D를 이용하여 모델링 하였다. 본 연구 결과 휨 실험에서 구한 팽창시점은 스폴링에 요구되는 응력수준을 평가하는데 중요한 지표가 됨을 알 수 있었으며, 또한 수치해석 결과도 유사한 결과를 모사할 수 있음을 보여주었다.

Formulation and evaluation a finite element model for free vibration and buckling behaviours of functionally graded porous (FGP) beams

  • Abdelhak Mesbah;Zakaria Belabed;Khaled Amara;Abdelouahed Tounsi;Abdelmoumen A. Bousahla;Fouad Bourada
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제86권3호
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    • pp.291-309
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    • 2023
  • This paper addresses the finite element modeling of functionally graded porous (FGP) beams for free vibration and buckling behaviour cases. The formulated finite element is based on simple and efficient higher order shear deformation theory. The key feature of this formulation is that it deals with Euler-Bernoulli beam theory with only three unknowns without requiring any shear correction factor. In fact, the presented two-noded beam element has three degrees of freedom per node, and the discrete model guarantees the interelement continuity by using both C0 and C1 continuities for the displacement field and its first derivative shape functions, respectively. The weak form of the governing equations is obtained from the Hamilton principle of FGP beams to generate the elementary stiffness, geometric, and mass matrices. By deploying the isoparametric coordinate system, the derived elementary matrices are computed using the Gauss quadrature rule. To overcome the shear-locking phenomenon, the reduced integration technique is used for the shear strain energy. Furthermore, the effect of porosity distribution patterns on the free vibration and buckling behaviours of porous functionally graded beams in various parameters is investigated. The obtained results extend and improve those predicted previously by alternative existing theories, in which significant parameters such as material distribution, geometrical configuration, boundary conditions, and porosity distributions are considered and discussed in detailed numerical comparisons. Determining the impacts of these parameters on natural frequencies and critical buckling loads play an essential role in the manufacturing process of such materials and their related mechanical modeling in aerospace, nuclear, civil, and other structures.

3D seismic assessment of historical stone arch bridges considering effects of normal-shear directions of stiffness parameters between discrete stone elements

  • Cavuslu, Murat
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • 제83권2호
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    • pp.207-227
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    • 2022
  • In general, the interaction conditions between the discrete stones are not taken into account by structural engineers during the modeling and analyzing of historical stone bridges. However, many structural damages in the stone bridges occur due to ignoring the interaction conditions between discrete stones. In this study, it is aimed to examine the seismic behavior of a historical stone bridge by considering the interaction stiffness parameters between stone elements. For this purpose, Tokatli historical stone arch bridge was built in 1179 in Karabük-Turkey, is chosen for three-dimensional (3D) seismic analyses. Firstly, the 3D finite-difference model of the Tokatli stone bridge is created using the FLAC3D software. During the modeling processes, the Burger-Creep material model which was not used to examine the seismic behavior of historical stone bridges in the past is utilized. Furthermore, the free-field and quiet non-reflecting boundary conditions are defined to the lateral and bottom boundaries of the bridge. Thanks to these boundary conditions, earthquake waves do not reflect in the 3D model. After each stone element is modeled separately, stiffness elements are defined between the stone elements. Three situations of the stiffness elements are considered in the seismic analyses; a) for only normal direction b) for only shear direction c) for both normal and shear directions. The earthquake analyses of the bridge are performed for these three different situations of the bridge. The far-fault and near-fault conditions of 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake are taken into account during the earthquake analyses. According to the seismic analysis results, the directions of the stiffness parameters seriously changed the earthquake behavior of the Tokatli bridge. Moreover, the most critical stiffness parameter is determined for seismic analyses of historical stone arch bridges.