Search results

1 – 10 of over 5000
Article
Publication date: 4 July 2016

Erfan Asaadi and P. Stephan Heyns

The purpose of this paper is to propose a progressive inverse identification algorithm to characterize flow stress of tubular materials from the material response, independent of…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to propose a progressive inverse identification algorithm to characterize flow stress of tubular materials from the material response, independent of choosing an a priori hardening constitutive model.

Design/methodology/approach

In contrast to the conventional forward flow stress identification methods, the flow stress is characterized by a multi-linear curve rather than a limited number of hardening model parameters. The proposed algorithm optimizes the slopes and lengths of the curve increments simultaneously. The objective of the optimization is that the finite element (FE) simulation response of the test estimates the material response within a predefined accuracy.

Findings

The authors employ the algorithm to identify flow stress of a 304 stainless steel tube in a tube bulge test as an example to illustrate application of the algorithm. Comparing response of the FE simulation using the obtained flow stress with the material response shows that the method can accurately determine the flow stress of the tube.

Practical implications

The obtained flow stress can be employed for more accurate FE simulation of the metal forming processes as the material behaviour can be characterized in a similar state of stress as the target metal forming process. Moreover, since there is no need for a priori choosing the hardening model, there is no risk for choosing an improper hardening model, which in turn facilitates solving the inverse problem.

Originality/value

The proposed algorithm is more efficient than the conventional inverse flow stress identification methods. In the latter, each attempt to select a more accurate hardening model, if it is available, result in constructing an entirely new inverse problem. However, this problem is avoided in the proposed algorithm.

Details

Engineering Computations, vol. 33 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

Keywords

Article
Publication date: 13 June 2016

Lei Wang, Xiaojun Wang and Xiao Li

– The purpose of this paper is to focus on the influences of the uncertain dynamic responses on the reconstruction of loads.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to focus on the influences of the uncertain dynamic responses on the reconstruction of loads.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on the assumption of unknown-but-bounded (UBB) noise, a time-domain approach to estimate the uncertain time-dependent external loads is presented by combining the inverse system method in modern control theory and interval analysis in interval mathematics. Inspired by the concept of set membership identification in control theory, an interval analysis model of external loads time history, which is indeed a region or feasible set containing all possible loads being consistent with the bounded structural acceleration responses is established and further solved by two interval algorithms.

Findings

Unlike traditional loads identification methods which only give a point estimation, an interval estimation of external loads time history, which is a region containing all the possible loads being consistent with the uncertain structural responses, is determined. The correlation characteristics among the responses of acceleration, velocity, and displacement are also discussed in consideration of the UBB uncertainty.

Originality/value

For one hand, the solution of the inverse problem in original system is transformed to the solution of the direct problem in inverse system; for another, the authors deal with the uncertainty by use of interval analysis method, and the identified interval process, which contains any possible external loads time history being consistent with the bounded structural responses can be approximately obtained.

Article
Publication date: 1 March 1996

Jean‐Loup Chenot, E. Massoni and JL. Fourment

Focuses on the inverse problems arising from the simulation of forming processes. Considers two sets of problems: parameter identification and shape optimization. Both are solved…

Abstract

Focuses on the inverse problems arising from the simulation of forming processes. Considers two sets of problems: parameter identification and shape optimization. Both are solved using an optimization method for the minimization of a suitable objective function. The convergence and convergence rate of the method depend on the accuracy of the derivatives of this function. The sensitivity analysis is based on a discrete approach, e.g. the differentiation of the discrete problem equations. Describes the method for non‐linear, non‐steady‐state‐forming problems involving contact evolution. First, it is applied to the parameter identification and to the torsion test. It shows good convergence properties and proves to be very efficient for the identification of the material behaviour. Then, it is applied to the tool shape optimization in forging for a two‐step process. A few iterations of the inverse method make it possible to suggest a suitable shape for the preforming tools.

Details

Engineering Computations, vol. 13 no. 2/3/4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

Keywords

Article
Publication date: 9 August 2022

Chunyun Zhang, Jie Mei, Yushuai Bai, Miao Cui, Haifeng Peng and X. W. Gao

The purpose of this study is to simultaneously determine the constitutive parameters and boundary conditions by solving inverse mechanical problems of power hardening…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to simultaneously determine the constitutive parameters and boundary conditions by solving inverse mechanical problems of power hardening elastoplastic materials in three-dimensional geometries.

Design/methodology/approach

The power hardening elastoplastic problem is solved by the complex variable finite element method in software ABAQUS, based on a three-dimensional complex stress element using user-defined element subroutine. The complex-variable-differentiation method is introduced and used to accurately calculate the sensitivity coefficients in the multiple parameters identification method, and the Levenberg–Marquardt algorithm is applied to carry out the inversion.

Findings

Numerical results indicate that the complex variable finite element method has good performance for solving elastoplastic problems of three-dimensional geometries. The inversion method is effective and accurate for simultaneously identifying multi-parameters of power hardening elastoplastic problems in three-dimensional geometries, which could be employed for solving inverse elastoplastic problems in engineering applications.

Originality/value

The constitutive parameters and boundary conditions are simultaneously identified for power hardening elastoplastic problems in three-dimensional geometries, which is much challenging in practical applications. The numerical results show that the inversion method has high accuracy, good stability, and fast convergence speed.

Article
Publication date: 2 October 2017

Siqi Dou, Junjie Li and Fei Kang

Parameter identification is an important issue in structural health monitoring and damage identification for concrete dams. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel…

Abstract

Purpose

Parameter identification is an important issue in structural health monitoring and damage identification for concrete dams. The purpose of this paper is to introduce a novel adaptive fireworks algorithm (AFWA) into inverse analysis of parameter identification.

Design/methodology/approach

Swarm intelligence algorithms and finite element analysis are integrated to identify parameters of hydraulic structures. Three swarm intelligence algorithms: AFWA, standard particle swarm optimization (SPSO) and artificial bee colony algorithm (ABC) are adopted to make a comparative study. These algorithms are introduced briefly and then tested by four standard benchmark functions. Inverse analysis methods based on AFWA, SPSO and ABC are adopted to identify Young’s modulus of a concrete gravity dam and a concrete arch dam.

Findings

Numerical results show that swarm intelligence algorithms are powerful tools for parameter identification of concrete structures. The proposed AFWA-based inverse analysis algorithm for concrete dams is promising in terms of accuracy and efficiency.

Originality/value

Fireworks algorithm is applied for inverse analysis of hydraulic structures for the first time, and the problem of parameter selection in AFWA is studied.

Article
Publication date: 1 January 2006

Henning Ressing and Mohamed S. Gadala

To investigate the feasibility of using single/multi variable optimisation techniques with vibration measurements in solving the inverse crack identification problem.

Abstract

Purpose

To investigate the feasibility of using single/multi variable optimisation techniques with vibration measurements in solving the inverse crack identification problem.

Design/methodology/approach

The finite element method is used to solve the forward crack problem with a special nodal crack force approach. The multi‐variable optimisation approach is reduced to a much more efficient single‐variable one by decoupling the physical variables in the problem.

Findings

It is shown that, for the crack identification problem, global optimisation algorithms perform much better than other algorithms relying heavily on objective function gradients. Simultaneous identification of crack size and location proved to be difficult. Decoupling of the physical variable is introduced and proved to provide efficient results with single‐variable optimisation algorithms.

Research limitations/implications

Need for improving the reliability and accuracy of the procedure for smaller crack sizes. Need for developing and investigation more rigorous and robust multi‐variable optimisation algorithm.

Practical implications

Any information about approximate crack size and location provides significant aid in the maintenance and online monitoring of rotating equipment.

Originality/value

The paper offers practical approach and procedure for online monitoring and crack identification of slow rotating equipment.

Details

Engineering Computations, vol. 23 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

Keywords

Article
Publication date: 4 May 2012

Ahmed Abou‐Elyazied Abdallh, Guillaume Crevecoeur and Luc Dupré

The purpose of this paper is to determine a priori the optimal needle placement so to achieve an as accurate as possible magnetic property identification of an electromagnetic…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to determine a priori the optimal needle placement so to achieve an as accurate as possible magnetic property identification of an electromagnetic device. Moreover, the effect of the uncertainties in the geometrical parameter values onto the optimal sensor position is studied.

Design/methodology/approach

The optimal needle placement is determined using the stochastic Cramér‐Rao lower bound method. The results obtained using the stochastic method are compared with a first order sensitivity analysis. The inverse problem is solved starting from real local magnetic induction measurements coupled with a 3D finite element model of an electromagnetic device (EI core inductor).

Findings

The optimal experimental design for the identification of the magnetic properties of an electromagnetic device is achieved. The uncertainties in the geometrical model parameters have a high effect on the inverse problem recovered solution.

Originality/value

The solution of the inverse problem is more accurate because the measurements are carried out at the optimal positions, in which the effects of the uncertainties in the geometrical model parameters are limited.

Details

COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 31 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0332-1649

Keywords

Article
Publication date: 30 October 2018

Mohammed Shuker Mahmood and D. Lesnic

The purpose of this paper is to solve numerically the identification of the thermal conductivity of an inhomogeneous and possibly anisotropic medium from interior/internal…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to solve numerically the identification of the thermal conductivity of an inhomogeneous and possibly anisotropic medium from interior/internal temperature measurements.

Design/methodology/approach

The formulated coefficient identification problem is inverse and ill-posed, and therefore, to obtain a stable solution, a non-linear regularized least-squares approach is used. For the numerical discretization of the orthotropic heat equation, the finite-difference method is applied, while the non-linear minimization is performed using the MATLAB toolbox routine lsqnonlin.

Findings

Numerical results show the accuracy and stability of solution even in the presence of noise (modelling inexact measurements) in the input temperature data.

Research limitations/implications

The mathematical formulation uses temporal temperature measurements taken at many points inside the sample, and this may be too much information that is provided to identify a space-wise dependent only conductivity tensor.

Practical implications

As noisy data are inverted, the paper models real situations in which practical temperature measurements recorded using thermocouples are inherently contaminated with random noise.

Social implications

The identification of the conductivity of inhomogeneous and orthotropic media will be of great interest to the inverse problems community with applications in geophysics, groundwater flow and heat transfer.

Originality/value

The current investigation advances the field of coefficient identification problems by generalizing the conductivity to be anisotropic in addition of being heterogeneous. The originality lies in performing, for the first time, numerical simulations of inversion to find the orthotropic and inhomogeneous thermal conductivity from noisy temperature measurements. Further value and physical significance are brought in by determining the degree of cure in a resin transfer molding process, in addition to obtaining the inhomogeneous thermal conductivity of the tested material.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 29 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

Keywords

Article
Publication date: 18 April 2023

R. Anish and K. Shankar

The purpose of this paper is to apply the novel instantaneous power flow balance (IPFB)-based identification strategy to a specific practical situation like nonlinear lap joints…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to apply the novel instantaneous power flow balance (IPFB)-based identification strategy to a specific practical situation like nonlinear lap joints having single and double bolts. The paper also investigates the identification performance of the proposed power flow method over conventional acceleration-matching (AM) methods and other methods in the literature for nonlinear identification.

Design/methodology/approach

A parametric model of the joint assembly formulated using generic beam element is used for numerically simulating the experimental response under sinusoidal excitations. The proposed method uses the concept of substructure IPFB criteria, whereby the algebraic sum of power flow components within a substructure is equal to zero, for the formulation of an objective function. The joint parameter identification problem was treated as an inverse formulation by minimizing the objective function using the Particle Swarm Optimization (PSO) algorithm, with the unknown parameters as the optimization variables.

Findings

The errors associated with identified numerical results through the instantaneous power flow approach have been compared with the conventional AM method using the same model and are found to be more accurate. The outcome of the proposed method is also compared with other nonlinear time-domain structural identification (SI) methods from the literature to show the acceptability of the results.

Originality/value

In this paper, the concept of IPFB-based identification method was extended to a more specific practical application of nonlinear joints which is not reported in the literature. Identification studies were carried out for both single-bolted and double-bolted lap joints with noise-free and noise-contamination cases. In the current study, only the zone of interest (substructure) needs to be modelled, thus reducing computational complexity, and only interface sensors are required in this method. If the force application point is outside the substructure, there is no need to measure the forcing response also.

Article
Publication date: 29 April 2014

Ahmed Abou-Elyazied Abdallh and Luc Dupré

Magnetic material properties of an electromagnetic device (EMD) can be recovered by solving a coupled experimental numerical inverse problem. In order to ensure the highest…

Abstract

Purpose

Magnetic material properties of an electromagnetic device (EMD) can be recovered by solving a coupled experimental numerical inverse problem. In order to ensure the highest possible accuracy of the inverse problem solution, all physics of the EMD need to be perfectly modeled using a complex numerical model. However, these fine models demand a high computational time. Alternatively, less accurate coarse models can be used with a demerit of the high expected recovery errors. The purpose of this paper is to present an efficient methodology to reduce the effect of stochastic modeling errors in the inverse problem solution.

Design/methodology/approach

The recovery error in the electromagnetic inverse problem solution is reduced using the Bayesian approximation error approach coupled with an adaptive Kriging-based model. The accuracy of the forward model is assessed and adapted a priori using the cross-validation technique.

Findings

The adaptive Kriging-based model seems to be an efficient technique for modeling EMDs used in inverse problems. Moreover, using the proposed methodology, the recovery error in the electromagnetic inverse problem solution is largely reduced in a relatively small computational time and memory storage.

Originality/value

The proposed methodology is capable of not only improving the accuracy of the inverse problem solution, but also reducing the computational time as well as the memory storage. Furthermore, to the best of the authors knowledge, it is the first time to combine the adaptive Kriging-based model with the Bayesian approximation error approach for the stochastic modeling error reduction.

Details

COMPEL: The International Journal for Computation and Mathematics in Electrical and Electronic Engineering, vol. 33 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0332-1649

Keywords

1 – 10 of over 5000