CI7211 – Introducción al

Análisis No Lineal de
Estructuras
Ricardo Herrera Mardones, Ph.D.
Profesor Asociado, Universidad de Chile

email: riherrer@ing.uchile.cl
Solution methods

(Source: Textbook)
 Simple step methods

 Solution
P   Pref    dPi    di Pref 
n n

i 1 i 1

   n 
 i    i 1   d i 
K d   dP   d P 
i i i i ref
 Simple step methods

  
How to define K i ?
 Runge-Kutta methods
K     K 
m

i j j
j 1
 Simple step methods

 Euler method (R-K 1st order): j=1

K   K 
i 1

(Source: Textbook)
 Simple step methods

 R-K 2nd order: j=2

K i   1 K1    2 K 2 
K 2   K  2   K  i 1   d  
 dPi   K 1 d   0    1
 Simple step methods

 Mid-point R-K 2nd order:

1=0, 2 =1,  =½

(Source: Textbook)
 Iterative methods

 Solution
P   Pref    dPi    di Pref     n 
n n

i 1 i 1

dPi    dPi    d P 
mi mi
j j
i ref
j 1 j 1

 i    i 1    d 
mi
j
i
j 1

K d   dP  dR   d P  P

i
j 1 j
i i
j
i
j 1 j
i ref i
j 1
 Fi j 1 
 Iterative methods

 Newton-Raphson

(Source: Textbook)
 Iterative methods

 Newton-Raphson
 Load control
 Displacement control
 Work control
 Arc-length (modified Riks method)