Abstract

Nonlinear architected materials are known to exhibit a plethora of dynamic phenomena that enhance our capacity to manipulate elastic waves. Since these properties stem from complex, subwavelength geometry, dynamic simulations at high resolutions are often intractable at scales of interest. Therefore, prior studies have turned to effective medium models that capture essential properties in the long-wavelength limit. One class of such models is a periodic structure composed of discrete mass, spring, and damper elements, whose constitutive relationships are computed to match behaviors observed in experiments or fine-scale simulations of representative volume elements. While models of this type have been implemented successfully in many cases, the majority of literature has been focused on recoverable deformation, possibly including linear damping. However, history-dependent effects, such as friction and plasticity, have been much less explored. In this work, we develop a discrete element modeling framework for nonlinear architected materials undergoing plastic deformation. Due to the history- and rate-dependent characteristics of plasticity, the framework generally yields a system of differential-algebraic equations whose computational cost is significantly greater than an elastic system of comparable size. We demonstrate the method using several examples from the literature and explore means to obtain phenomenological plasticity models for general geometries.

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