Development of global contact searching method based on octree algorithm
Received:March 15, 2016  Revised:May 03, 2016
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DOI:10.7511/jslx201703009
KeyWord:finite element method  contact-impact  global searching  PANDA-Impact
           
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陈成军 中国工程物理研究院总体工程研究所, 绵阳
柳明 中国工程物理研究院总体工程研究所, 绵阳
陈小伟 中国工程物理研究院总体工程研究所, 绵阳
成杰 中国工程物理研究院高性能数值模拟软件中心, 北京
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Abstract:
      In finite element simulations,contact searching is the most time-consuming part in the problems involving contact-impact,therefore it is significant to develop an efficient contact-pairs searching method.In this paper a new global searching method based on octree algorithm is developed and implemented in PANDA-Impact program.In the proposed method,centroid of the master segment and relevant characteristic length are used to represent its true geometry.Two new concepts,tree-bounding-box and slave-bounding-box,are presented.The cost of the new contact searching method is of the order of O(Nlog8M),where N is the number of the slave nodes,and M is the number of master segments.In implementation,pre-searching and neighbor-searching are introduced to accelerate the efficiency of contact-searching.The results of typical numerical experiments show that the new contact searching method is very efficient.In dealing with problems involving complex and large amount of contact pairs,the new method has an apparent observable advantage over the bucket sorting method.