NDLI: Mechanics of extended continua: modeling and simulation of elastic microstretch materials

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Author	Kirchner, N. Steinmann, P.
Copyright Year	2006
Abstract	The investigation of microstretch and micromorphic continua (which are prominent examples of so-called extended continua) dates back to Eringens pioneering works in the mid 1960, cf. (Eringen in Mechanics of micromorphic materials. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, pp 131–138, 1966; Eringen in Int J Eng Sci 8:819–828; Eringen in Microcontinuum field theories. Springer, Berlin Heidelberg New York, 1999). Here, we re-derive the governing equations of microstretch continua in a variational setting, providing a natural framework within which numerical implementations of the model equations by means of the finite element method can be obtained straightforwardly. In the application of Dirichlets principle, the postulation of an appropriate form of the Helmholtz free energy turns out to be crucial to the derivation of the balance laws and constitutive relations for microstretch continua. At present, the material parameters involved in the free energy have been assigned fixed values throughout all numerical simulations—this simplification is addressed in detail as the influence of those parameters must not be underestimated. Since only few numerical results demonstrating elastic microstretch material behavior in engineering applications are available, the focus is here on the presentation of numerical results for simple twodimensional test specimens subjected to a plane strain condition and uniaxial tension. Confidence in the simulations for microstretch materials is gained by showing that they exhibit a “downward-compatibility” to Cosserat continuum formulation: by switching off all stretch-related effects, the governing set of equations reduces to the one used for polar materials. Further, certain material parameters can be chosen to act as penalty parameters, forcing stretch-related contributions to an almost negligible range in a full microstretch model so that numerical results obtained for a polar model can be obtained as a limiting case from the full microstretch model.
Starting Page	651
Ending Page	666
Page Count	16
File Format	PDF
ISSN	01787675
Journal	Computational Mechanics
Volume Number	40
Issue Number	4
e-ISSN	14320924
Language	English
Publisher	Springer-Verlag
Publisher Date	2006-11-10
Publisher Place	Berlin, Heidelberg
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Microstretch continua Variational approach Finite element method Elasticity Mechanics, Fluids, Thermodynamics Computational Science and Engineering Numerical and Computational Methods in Engineering Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Applied Mathematics Ocean Engineering Computational Theory and Mathematics Mechanical Engineering Computational Mechanics Computational Mathematics

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