Large Elasto-Plastic Deformations in Bi-Material Components by Coupled FE-EFGM

Abstract

In the recent years, the coupled finite element-element free Galerkin method (coupled FE-EFGM) has found wide application in modeling large elasto-plastic deformations in bi-material components. The coupled FE-EFGM applies EFGM in the portion of the domain where large deformations are expected to occur, whereas the rest of the domain is discretized into conventional finite elements. The large deformation occurring in the domain has been modeled by using the total Lagrangian approach. The non-linear elasto-plastic behavior of the material has been represented by the Ramberg-Osgood model. Finally, two numerical problems are solved by the coupled FE-EFGM to illustrate its applicability, efficiency and accuracy in modeling large elasto-plastic deformations in bi-material samples.