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On the extremal properties of the solution in dynamics of rigid-viscoplastic bodies allowing for large displacement effects

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Viene discusso il problema della dinamica delle strutture rigido plastiche nel campo dei grandi spostamenti. Vengono dimostrate le proprietà estremali della soluzione incrementale dimostrando che il campo di accelerazioni minimizza alcuni funzionali quadratici in una classe di funzioni vincolata dal rispetto di opportune condizioni di eguaglianza e disegnaglianza lineare. Discretizzando il corpo col metodo degli elementi finiti, i suddetti principi riportano il problema nel campo della programmazione quadratica e consentono quindi di utilizzare i ben noti ed efficienti algoritmi numerici di soluzione dei detti problemi. Si sottolinea quindi come, avvalendosi dei concetti esposti in questo lavoro, si possa pervenire a programmi di calcolo numerico del tutto generali per la soluzione del problema in questione.

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This paper discusses the dynamics of rigid-viscoplastic bodies, bearing in mind large displacement effects. The extremal properties of the incremental solution of the dynamic problem are demonstrated. It is shown that the true instantaneous acceleration field minimizes some quadratic functionals in a class of functions constrained by linear equations and inequalities.

It is also shown that, by idealizing the body as an assemblage of finite elements, the above principles reduce the problem to the solution of a classical quadratic programming problem that can be solved by several well-known efficient algorithms. Thus a general purpose finite element program for the dynamic analysis of rigid-viscoplastic structures can be derived by using the concepts shown in this paper.

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The results presented in this paper were obtained in the course of research sponsored by the National (Italian) Research Council (C.N.R.).

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Capurso, M. On the extremal properties of the solution in dynamics of rigid-viscoplastic bodies allowing for large displacement effects. Meccanica 7, 236–247 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02133722

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