The Numerical Method
The Numerical Method
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DOI:
10.1007/978-3-540-79111-9_4
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2008
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通讯作者:
M. Lucchesi;C. Padovani;G. Pasquinelli;N. Zani
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作者:
M. Lucchesi;C. Padovani;G. Pasquinelli;N. Zani
In chapter 3 we proved that, given the load (̂u, ̂s, b), the set of all weak solutions to the equilibrium problem is exactly the set of all minimizers of the potential energy (propositions 3.2, 3.3 and 3.4). We moreover showed that each strong solution is a minimizer for the complementary energy (proposition 3.5). From such results, it follows that a numerical solution to the equilibrium problem of masonry-like solids can be calculated via different methods. The most common approach is based on a displacement formulation of the finite element method applied to the weak formulation (3.21) of the equilibrium problem [1],[68],[70],[76],[96]. In [32] the equilibrium problem is instead solved by minimizing the complementary energy functional on a suitable set of stress fields. Another possible approach is to minimize the potential energy on the set of all kinematically admissible states [2]. It is assumed that the reader is familiar with the finite element method, otherwise, detailed descriptions can be found in [25],[18],[6],[20],[21],[84],[85] and [57].