Abstract
Due to the uncertain microscopic structure of the material, the strength of the material exhibits strong randomness. This randomness results in uncertain response of the structure in the sequentially coupled thermal-mechanical analysis by welding simulation. Because of the limitations of deterministic welding simulation, the stochastic finite element method with random field will be introduced into the welding simulation, so that the welded structure can be more accurately calculated in the stability and reliability structural analysis. Particularly, it is necessary to propose reasonable distributions of residual stress from welding simulations based on statistical and reliability theories. This paper is intended to implement the stochastic finite element method in the welding simulation using a general-purpose simulation program and to demonstrate the potential of the proposed approach. Furthermore, the statistical distribution function of the welding simulation response is obtained by maximum entropy fitting method. Then, a numerical example is presented by the proposed method.
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Abbreviations
- δ ij :
-
Kronecker symbol
- θ :
-
primitive randomness
- λ i :
-
i-th eigenvalue
- λ n :
-
Lagrange multiplier
- μ(X):
-
mean value
- ξi(θ):
-
i-th random variable
- ρ HH(X 1, X 2):
-
correlation function
- σ 2 :
-
standard deviation
- φ i(X):
-
i-th eigenfunction
- ϕj(X):
-
j-th basic eigenfunction
- (Ω, F, P):
-
probability space
- A ij ,B ij :
-
K-L expansion matrices
- C HH(X 1, X 2):
-
covariance function
- E{ϕ n(x)}:
-
statistics moments
- H :
-
Entropy
- H(X, θ):
-
random field
- Je :
-
mapping coefficient matrix
- l D :
-
correlation length
- M :
-
truncation order
- X :
-
position vector
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Li, Z., Launert, B. & Pasternak, H. Application of the stochastic finite element method in welding simulation. Weld World 62, 905–912 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40194-018-0596-4
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