Improved explicit quartic B-spline time integration scheme for dynamic response analysis of viscoelastic systems

A quartic B-spline based explicit scheme is extended for dynamic analysis of viscoelastic systems. In the calculation formulation, different integration approximation schemes for exponential damping models and other damping models are presented. The mathematical derivation of the convolution solving strategy is formulated for viscoelastic systems. For the damping models composed of exponential function, this scheme only requires once convolution calculation in each time step, even though the dynamic equations are used twice. This significantly reduces the calculation time for the damping models composed of exponential function. Numerical examples show that the proposed quartic B-spline based explicit scheme achieves higher accuracy and efficiency compared to other competitive explicit schemes, not only for damping models composed of exponential functions, but also for other viscoelastic damping models.