TY  - EJOU
AU  - Wu, T.Y.  
AU  - Tsai, W.C.  
AU  - Lee, J.J.  

TI  - In-plane Crushing Analysis of Cellular Materials Using Vector Form Intrinsic Finite Element
T2  - Computers, Materials \& Continua

PY  - 2010
VL  - 17
IS  - 3
SN  - 1546-2226

AB  - The crushing of cellular materials is a highly nonlinear problem, for which geometrical, material, and contact/impact must be treated in one analysis. In order to develop a framework able to solve it efficiently and accurately, in this paper procedures for in-plane crushing analysis of cellular materials using vector form intrinsic finite element (VFIFE) is performed. A beam element of VFIFE is employed to handle large rotation and large deflection in the cell walls. An elastic-plastic material model with mixed hardening rule is adopted to account for material nonlinearity. In addition, an efficient contact/impact algorithm is designed to treat the complex contact/impact encountered in crushed cellular materials. Numerical results performed reveals that the procedures proposed in this paper are sound and reliable to simulate crushing of diverse cellular materials.
KW  - Crushing analysis
KW  -  cellular material
KW  -  VFIFE

DO  - 10.3970/cmc.2010.017.175