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Models for Isogeometric Analysis from CAD

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Part of the Lecture Notes in Mathematics book series (LNMCIME,volume 2161)

Abstract

In isogeometric analysis splines are used for describing both the geometric shape and the solution fields of the analysis. Although splines are used in boundary structure CAD models, the CAD representation cannot be used directly in isogeometric analysis. We focus on how to build block structured models suited for isogeometric analysis from CAD-models. The blocks are quadrilateral or hexahedral depending on the dimension of the space. A CAD solid represented by its outer and inner hulls is replaced by a trivariate structure where each block is a spline volume and the blocks meet with at least C 0 continuity. To avoid continuity conditions involving several coefficients at block boundaries when representing the blocks by NURBS we do not allow T-joints, i.e., the blocks have to meet in a corner-to-corner configuration. No such conditions are necessary for LR B-splines as LR B-splines are constructed on domains with T-junctions. The local refinement properties of LR B-splines facilitate adapting the structure of the spline space to the local variations of both the shape model and the analysis model. Although the data structure for LR B-splines is more complex than for NURBS, the data volume needed for representing a model using LR B-splines will in most cases be much smaller for LR B-splines than for NURBS.

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  • Volume Model
  • Linear Sweep
  • Spline Space
  • Isogeometric Analysis
  • NURBS Surface

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Skytt, V., Dokken, T. (2016). Models for Isogeometric Analysis from CAD. In: Buffa, A., Sangalli, G. (eds) IsoGeometric Analysis: A New Paradigm in the Numerical Approximation of PDEs. Lecture Notes in Mathematics(), vol 2161. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42309-8_2

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