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Assessments of Structure-Dependent Integration Methods with Explicit Displacement and Velocity Difference Equations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 July 2017

S. Y. Chang*
Affiliation:
Department of Civil EngineeringNational Taipei University of TechnologyTaipei, Taiwan
T. H. Wu
Affiliation:
Department of Civil EngineeringNational Taipei University of TechnologyTaipei, Taiwan
*
Corresponding author (changsy@ntut.edu.tw)
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Abstract

A family of structure-dependent integration methods has been proposed by Gui et al. for time integration. Although it has desirable numerical properties, such as unconditional stability, explicit formulation and second-order accuracy, it has some adverse properties, such as a poor capability to capture structural nonlinearity, an overshoot in a high frequency steady- state response and a weak instability in the high frequency response of nonzero initial conditions. The causes of these adverse properties are explored. A poor capability to capture structural nonlinearity may originate from the convergence rate of 1 in velocity error. This family method has an overshoot in a high frequency steady-state response and this overshoot can be eliminated by adding a load-dependent term into the displacement difference equation. It is also analytically verified that the family method generally has no weak instability. However, the special member with λ = 4, i.e., CR explicit method, is shown to have a weak instability. Thus, it must be prohibited from practical applications although many applications of this method were found in the literature.

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Copyright © The Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics 2018 

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