Reduced Minimization Theory in Skew Beam Element

Title & Authors
Reduced Minimization Theory in Skew Beam Element
Moon, Won-joo; Kim, Yong-woo; Min, Oak-key; Lee, Kang-won;

Abstract
Since the skew beam element has two curvatures which are a curvature and a torsion, spatial behavior of curved beam which cannot be included in one plane can be anlayzed by emploting the skew beam element. The $\small{C^{0}}$-continuous skew beam element shows the stiffness locking phenomenon when full integration is employed. The locking phenomenpn is characterized by two typical phenomena ; one is the much smaller displacement thant the exact one and theother is the undelation phenomenon is stress distribution. In this paper, we examine how unmatched coefficient in the constrained energy brings about the locking by Reduced Minimization theory. We perform the numerical ones. These comparisons show that uniformly full integration(UFI), which employs full integration for the constrained energy, entails the locking phenomenon. But the use of uniformly reduced integration(URI) of selectively reduced integration(SRI), which employs reduced integration for constrained energy, does not produce the significant errors of displacements of the undulation phenomenon in stress distribution since they do not entails the locking, Additionally, the error due to the approximated parameters for describing the geometry of skew beam is examined.d.
Keywords
Reduced Minimization Theory;Skew Beam Element;Locking Phenomenon;Spurious Constraint;Constrained Strain Energy;
Language
Korean
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