Warped hexahedral meshing of an ellipsoidal inclusion for design of composite material

L. Podshivalov, A. Fischer, P. Z. Bar-Yoseph

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Abstract

Composite material can be designed and modeled as a matrix with ellipsoidal inclusions of several materials. These multiple ellipsoidal inclusions are randomly distributed in a unit cube volume according to the material parameters, e.g. density, size, orientation. These models can be meshed and then used for mechanical finite element analysis. Rapid meshing can be achieved with structured grids. However, regular structured grids are considered sensitive to orientation and not robust, since the mesh quality strongly depends on the orientation and spatial position of the geometric model. In this paper, we describe an automatic warped hexahedral meshing algorithm that produces deformed structured meshes for composite materials with ellipsoidal inclusions. The proposed algorithm successfully meets the above challenges and provides high quality meshes.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationInnovative Developments in Virtual and Physical Prototyping - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Research and Rapid Prototyping
EditorsPaulo Jorge Bartolo
Pages737-741
Number of pages5
StatePublished - 2012
Event5th International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Physical Prototyping, VR@P 2011 - Leiria, Portugal
Duration: 28 Sep 20111 Oct 2011

Publication series

NameInnovative Developments in Virtual and Physical Prototyping - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Advanced Research and Rapid Prototyping

Conference

Conference5th International Conference on Advanced Research in Virtual and Physical Prototyping, VR@P 2011
Country/TerritoryPortugal
CityLeiria
Period28/09/111/10/11

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Software

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