Abstract
Abstract Mechanical interactions between rigid rings and flexible cables find broad application in both daily life (hanging clothes) and engineering system (closing a tether-net). A reduced-order method for the dynamic analysis of sliding rings on a deformable one-dimensional (1D) rod-like object is proposed. In contrast to the conventional approach of discretising joint rings into multiple nodes and edges for contact detection and numerical simulation, a single point is used to reduce the order of the model. To ensure that the sliding ring and flexible rod do not deviate from their desired positions, a new barrier function is formulated using the incremental potential theory. Subsequently, the interaction between tangent frictional forces is obtained through a delayed dissipative approach. The proposed barrier functional and the associated frictional functional are C2 continuous, hence the nonlinear elastodynamic system can be solved variationally by an implicit time-stepping scheme. The numerical framework is initially applied to simple examples where the analytical solutions are available for validation. Then, multiple complex practical engineering examples are considered to showcase the effectiveness of the proposed method. The simplified ring-to-rod interaction model has the capacity to enhance the realism of visual effects in image animations, while simultaneously facilitating the optimisation of designs for space debris removal systems.
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