Nonconvex bundle method with application to a delamination problem

Minh N. Dao (), Joachim Gwinner (), Dominikus Noll () and Nina Ovcharova ()
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Minh N. Dao: Hanoi National University of Education
Joachim Gwinner: Universität der Bundeswehr München
Dominikus Noll: Université de Toulouse
Nina Ovcharova: Universität der Bundeswehr München

Computational Optimization and Applications, 2016, vol. 65, issue 1, No 7, 173-203

Abstract: Abstract Delamination is a typical failure mode of composite materials caused by weak bonding. It arises when a crack initiates and propagates under a destructive loading. Given the physical law characterizing the properties of the interlayer adhesive between the bonded bodies, we consider the problem of computing the propagation of the crack front and the stress field along the contact boundary. This leads to a hemivariational inequality, which after discretization by finite elements we solve by a nonconvex bundle method, where upper- $$C^1$$ C 1 criteria have to be minimized. As this is in contrast with other classes of mechanical problems with non-monotone friction laws and in other applied fields, where criteria are typically lower- $$C^1$$ C 1 , we propose a bundle method suited for both types of nonsmoothness. We prove its global convergence in the sense of subsequences and test it on a typical delamination problem of material sciences.

Keywords: Composite material; Delamination; Hemivariational inequality; Nonconvex bundle method; Lower- and upper- $$C^1$$ C 1 functions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016
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