On the Parametrization of Velocity-Based Constraints in EUROPLEXUS
This report presents some notes on the treatment of constraints by Lagrange Multipliers in EUROPLEXUS (also abbreviated as EPX), a computer code jointly developed by the French Commissariat `a l’Energie Atomique (CEA DMT Saclay) and by EC-JRC. The code application domain is the numerical simulation of fast transient phenomena such as explosions, crashes and impacts in complex three-dimensional fluid-structure systems. Recently, EPX is being used to simulate vehicle crash against obstacles such as road barriers for safety and security studies. These studies involve the treatment of complex contact-impact scenarios, which in EPX are typically modelled by the method of Lagrange Multipliers (LM), although other methods (e.g. penalty-based) are also available in the code. Recent investigations concerning (elastic) impact tests have shown that the LM-based mid-step velocity constraints strategy (the default one in EPX) leads to smooth solutions (few oscillations), but some energy is lost at the moment of the impact, namely each time some previously free nodes get into contact, so that the total energy of the system is not exactly conserved. On the contrary, the full-step velocity constraints strategy produces a lot of oscillations (if the material is elastic) but it conserves much better the energy of the system. Therefore, it has been proposed to implement a parametrization of the velocity constraints, allowing to choose an intermediate value of the time at which the constraints are imposed. The goal is to reduce the spurious energy dissipation observed with the mid-step strategy, but hopefully without triggering the large oscillations produced by the full-step strategy.
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- © European Union, 2023.
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Corporate Authors:
Joint Research Centre (European Commission)
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Authors:
- Casadei, F
- Markovic, D
- Larcher, M
- Publication Date: 2023
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Digital/other
- Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
- Pagination: 68p
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Constraints; Crash tests; Impact loads; Simulation; Traffic crashes; Velocity
- Identifier Terms: European Union; EUROPLEXUS (Software)
- Geographic Terms: European Union
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01885738
- Record Type: Publication
- ISBN: 9789268032275
- Report/Paper Numbers: JRC133012, EUR 31504 EN
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Jun 22 2023 9:49AM