Simulation of non-linear structural elastodynamic and impact problems using minimum energy and simultaneous diagonalization high-order bases

Abstract: We present the application of simultaneous diagonalization and minimum energy (SDME) high-order finite element modal bases for simulation of transient non-linear elastodynamic problem, including impact cases with neo-hookean hyperelastic materials. The bases are constructed using procedures for simultaneous diagonalization of the internal modes and Schur complement of the boundary modes from the standard nodal and modal bases, constructed using Lagrange and Jacobi polynomials, respectively. The implementation of these bases in a high-order finite element code is straightforward, since the procedure is applied only to the one-dimensional expansion bases. Non-linear transient structural problems with large deformation, hyperelastic materials and impact are solved using the obtained bases with explicit and implicit time integration procedures. Iterative solutions based on preconditioned conjugate gradient methods are considered. The performance of the proposed bases in terms of the number of iterations of pre-conditioned conjugate gradient methods and computational time are compared with the standard nodal and modal bases. Our numerical tests obtained speedups up to 41 using the considered bases when compared to the standard ones.