A Coarsened-Shell-Based Cosserat Model for the Simulation of Hybrid Cables
Electronics(2024)
Abstract
The simulation of elastic slender objects like cables is essential for industrial applications in predicting elastic behaviors and life cycles. The Cosserat model and its variants are the dominant approaches due to their high efficiency and accuracy. However, these assume cables with homogeneous interiors and thus cannot simulate hybrid cables containing different materials. We address this by developing a novel coarsened-shell-based Cosserat (CSC) model. The CSC model constructs a material-aware elastic energy function along the cable’s cross-section to describe the global elastic behavior. The CSC model is specifically developed by carefully leveraging the strengths of three approaches: the Cosserat theory to model slender cables, the Kirchhoff–Love shell theory to model the cable’s cross-sectional energy, and numerical coarsening to reduce the degrees of freedom in the shell simulation via constructing a set of new types of material-aware shape/base functions. This allows the more accurate computation of the local and global deformations of hybrid cables, surpassing the classical Cosserat models in accuracy.
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Key words
Cosserat rod theory,hybrid cables,numerical coarsening,material anisotropy
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