Abstract
The component mode synthesis (CMS) methods are often utilized for modal analysis to investigate the vibration characteristics of the complex structures which are commonly divided into several substructures. However, non-matching finite element meshes may occur at the interfaces between components and virtual gaps are easily produced along the curved interfaces, which limit the application of CMS and lead to larger numerical errors for vibration analysis. To overcome the problem, a novel gap element method (GEM) is employed into a free-interface CMS method in this paper, where both displacements and forces of the nodes on the incompatible interfaces are introduced by two independent Lagrange multipliers to enforce the compatibility conditions. Two-dimensional numerical examples are given to validate the effectiveness of the proposed method. The results of natural frequencies and modal shapes obtained using the proposed method agree very well with the ones obtained using full finite elements model, no matter the gaps along the interface exist or not. The influence of the number of nodes on the non-matching interfaces on the accuracy of frequencies is also discussed.
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