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Materials such as thermoplastics often have different behaviors when subjected to traction and compression. In those cases, yield criterions for nonlinear behavior need to be appropriately selected. In this work, a thermoplastic for a particular additive manufacturing process—the fused filament fabrication (FFF)—is investigated. Traction and compression tests are performed using two numerical tools and two variations of the Newton-Raphson method for the elasto-plastic incremental-iterative process. The stress-strain curves are compared with experimental data provided in the literature. The numerical tools used are the Finite Element Method (FEM) and the Radial Point Interpolation Method (RPIM), which is a meshless method [1]. In order to discretize the problem domain, meshless methods only require an unstructured nodal distribution. The numerical integration of the Galerkin weak form is performed using a background integration mesh and the nodal connectivity is enforced by the overlap of influence-domains defined in each integration point. In the end, a comparison study is performed between the results obtained using the meshless method and the finite element method.
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The authors truly acknowledge the funding provided by Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia e Ensino Superior—Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (Portugal), under grants: SFRH/BD/121019/2016, and by project funding MIT-EXPL/ISF/0084/2017. Additionally, the authors gratefully acknowledge the funding of Project NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000022—SciTech—Science and Technology for Competitive and Sustainable Industries, co-financed by Programa Operacional Regional do Norte (NORTE2020), through Fundo Europeu de Desenvolvimento Regional (FEDER).
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Rodrigues, D.E.S., Belinha, J., Natal Jorge, R.M., Dinis, L.M.J.S. (2019). The Elasto-plastic Analysis of Polymers Subject to Traction and Compression Using Advanced Discretization Techniques. In: Correia, J., De Jesus, A., Fernandes, A., Calçada, R. (eds) Mechanical Fatigue of Metals. Structural Integrity, vol 7. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-13980-3_51
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