A nonintrusive distributed reduced‐order modeling framework for nonlinear structural mechanics—Application to elastoviscoplastic computations

Abstract

SummaryIn this work, we propose a framework that constructs reduced‐order models for nonlinear structural mechanics in a nonintrusive fashion and can handle large‐scale simulations. Three steps are carried out: (i) the production of high‐fidelity solutions by commercial software, (ii) the offline stage of the model reduction, and (iii) the online stage where the reduced‐order model is exploited. The nonintrusivity assumes that only the displacement field solution is known, and the proposed framework carries out operations on these simulation data during the offline phase. The compatibility with a new commercial code only needs the implementation of a routine converting the discretized solution into our in‐house data format. The nonintrusive capabilities of the framework are demonstrated on numerical experiments using commercial versions of Z‐set and Ansys Mechanical. The nonlinear constitutive equations are evaluated by using an external plugin. The large‐scale simulations are handled using domain decomposition and parallel computing with distributed memory. The features and performances of the framework are evaluated on two numerical applications involving elastoviscoplastic materials: the second one involves a model of high‐pressure blade, where the framework is used to extrapolate cyclic loadings in 6.5 hours, whereas the reference high‐fidelity computation would take 9.5 days.