Since the beginning of the industrial age, material performance and design have been in the midst of innovation of many disruptive technologies. Today's electronics, space, medical, transportation, and other industries are enriched by development, design and deployment of composite, heterogeneous and multifunctional materials. As a result, materials innovation is now considerably outpaced by other aspects from component design to product cycle. In this article, we review predictive nonlinear theories for multiscale modeling of heterogeneous materials. Deeper attention is given to multiscale modeling in space and to computational homogenization in addressing challenging materials science questions. Moreover, we discuss a state-of-the-art platform in predictive image-based, multiscale modeling with co-designed simulations and experiments that executes on the world's largest supercomputers. Such a modeling framework consists of experimental tools, computational methods, and digital data strategies. Once fully completed, this collaborative and interdisciplinary framework can be the basis of Virtual Materials Testing standards and aids in the development of new material formulations. Moreover, it will decrease the time to market of innovative products.
Computational micromechanics and homogenization require the solution of the
mechanical equilibrium of a periodic cell that comprises a (generally complex)
microstructure. Techniques that apply the Fast Fourier Transform have attracted
much attention as they outperform other methods in terms of speed and memory
footprint. Moreover, the Fast Fourier Transform is a natural companion of
pixel-based digital images which often serve as input. In its original form,
one of the biggest challenges for the method is the treatment of
(geometrically) non-linear problems, partially due to the need for a uniform
linear reference problem. In a geometrically linear setting, the problem has
recently been treated in a variational form resulting in an unconditionally
stable scheme that combines Newton iterations with an iterative linear solver,
and therefore exhibits robust and quadratic convergence behavior. Through this
approach, well-known key ingredients were recovered in terms of discretization,
numerical quadrature, consistent linearization of the material model, and the
iterative solution of the resulting linear system. As a result, the extension
to finite strains, using arbitrary constitutive models, is at hand. Because of
the application of the Fast Fourier Transform, the implementation is
substantially easier than that of other (Finite Element) methods. Both claims
are demonstrated in this paper and substantiated with a simple code in Python
of just 59 lines (without comments). The aim is to render the method
transparent and accessible, whereby researchers that are new to this method
should be able to implement it efficiently. The potential of this method is
demonstrated using two examples, each with a different material model
This contribution presents a novel homogenization technique for modeling heterogeneous materials with micro-inertia effects such as locally resonant acoustic metamaterials. Linear elastodynamics is used to model the micro and macro scale problems and an extended first order Computational Homogenization framework is used to establish the coupling. Craig Bampton Mode Synthesis is then applied to solve and eliminate the microscale problem, resulting in a compact closed form description of the microdynamics that accurately captures the Local Resonance phenomena. The resulting equations represent an enriched continuum in which additional kinematic degrees of freedom emerge to account for Local Resonance effects which would otherwise be absent in a classical continuum. Such an approach retains the accuracy and robustness offered by a standard Computational Homogenization implementation, whereby the problem and the computational time are reduced to the on-line solution of one scale only.
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