A Realistic Model for Visco-Elastic Contact Between Spherical Particles

Author(s):  
Mohammad Hadi Bordbar ◽  
Timo Hyppanen

The contact force model is very important to describe the grain collision process accurately. In this research, the linear/nonlinear contact force models and normal coefficient of restitution in different impact velocities has been studied. A new contact force model for describing the normal collision between two visco-elastic spherical particles has been suggested and the ability of this new model in predicting the correct behavior of normal contact has been confirmed. The constitutive equations of this model have been solved numerically and the result shows a better conformity with experimental result reported by Bridge et al. [1] than the previous models, such as the model presented by Brilliantov et al. [2]. By using the suitable finite elements model, the stress and deformation of particles during the collision has been obtained and the result of the finite elements model shows a good conformity with our new suggested contact force model in the case of elastic and visco-elastic contact. The behavior of normal coefficient of restitution in multisize spherical particles in different impact velocities and effect of the size on it has been experimentally studied. In addition to our more suitable contact force model, we achieved some nice conclusions from our experimental data about the loss of energy during the multisize collision and effect of size difference on this loss.

2012 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mohamed Gharib ◽  
Yildirim Hurmuzlu

Impact problems arise in many practical applications. The need for obtaining an accurate model for the inelastic impact is a challenging problem. In general, two approaches are common in solving the impact problems: the impulse-momentum and the compliance based methods. The former approach included the coefficient of restitution which provides a mechanism to solve the problem explicitly. While the compliance methods are generally tailored to solve elastic problems, researchers in the field have proposed several mechanisms to include inelastic losses. In this paper, we present correlations between the coefficient of restitution in the impulse-momentum based method and the contact stiffness in the compliance methods. We conducted numerical analysis to show that the resulting solutions are indeed identical for a specific range of impact conditions. The impulse-momentum based model is considered as a reference case to compare the post impact velocities. The numerical results showed that, the impulse-momentum and the compliance based methods can produce similar outcomes for specific range of coefficient of restitution if they satisfied a set of end conditions. The correlations lead to introduce a new contact force model with hysteresis damping for low coefficient of restitution impact.


Author(s):  
Margarida Machado ◽  
Paulo Flores

A general and comprehensive analysis on the continuous contact force models in multibody dynamics is presented and a novel contact force model is proposed. The force models are developed based on the foundation of the Hertz law together with a hysteresis damping parameter that accounts for the energy dissipation during the contact process. In a simple way, these contact force models are based on the analysis and development of three main issues: (i) the dissipated energy associated with the coefficient of restitution that includes the balance of kinetic energy and the conservation of the linear momentum between the initial and final instant of contact; (ii) the stored elastic energy, representing part of initial kinetic energy, which is evaluated as the work done by the contact force developed during the contact process; (iii) the dissipated energy due to internal damping, which is evaluated by modeling the contact process as a single degree-of-freedom system to obtain a hysteresis damping factor. This factor takes into account the geometrical and material properties, as well as the kinematic characteristics of the contacting bodies. The proposed contact force model has the great merit that can be used for contact problems involving materials with low or moderate values of coefficient of restitution. This contact force model is suitable to be included into the equations of motion of a multibody system and contributes to their stable numerical resolution. Two demonstrative examples of application are used to provide the results that support the analysis and discussion of procedures and methodologies adopted in this work.


Author(s):  
Jie Yu ◽  
Jinkui Chu ◽  
Yang Li ◽  
Le Guan

Contact-impact problems have attracted more and more attention in mechanical multibody systems. In the past period of time, a few compliant contact force models have been put forward. However, some compliant contact force models are only applicable to a specific range of coefficient of restitution impact problems. And, some compliant contact force models have large errors with the actual situation. In order to reduce the errors, an improved compliant contact force model is proposed in this paper, which is applicable to the whole range of coefficient of restitution impact problems. In this work, the permanent deformation is taken into account during the contact process. Meanwhile, the method of piecewise fitting is used to reduce the errors in numerical solutions. Therefore, the improved compliant contact force model uses a piecewise function for the whole range of coefficient of restitution. In order to illustrate the situation, six independent contact force models are numerically analyzed by using Matlab codes. The result shows that the improved compliant contact force model in this paper is applicable to both soft and hard impact and nearer to the actual situation.


Author(s):  
P. Flores ◽  
J. Ambro´sio ◽  
J. C. P. Claro ◽  
H. M. Lankarani

This work deals with a methodology to assess the influence of the spherical clearance joints in spatial multibody systems. The methodology is based on the Cartesian coordinates, being the dynamics of the joint elements modeled as impacting bodies and controlled by contact forces. The impacts and contacts are described by a continuous contact force model that accounts for geometric and mechanical characteristics of the contacting surfaces. The contact force is evaluated as function of the elastic pseudo-penetration between the impacting bodies, coupled with a nonlinear viscous-elastic factor representing the energy dissipation during the impact process. A spatial four bar mechanism is used as an illustrative example and some numerical results are presented, being the efficiency of the developed methodology discussed in the process of their presentation. The results obtained show that the inclusion of clearance joints in the modelization of spatial multibody systems significantly influences the prediction of components’ position and drastically increases the peaks in acceleration and reaction moments at the joints. Moreover, the system’s response clearly tends to be nonperiodic when a clearance joint is included in the simulation.


Author(s):  
Hamid M. Lankarani ◽  
Parviz E. Nikravesh

Abstract A continuous analysis method for the direct-central impact of two solid particles is presented. Based on the assumption that local plasticity effects are the sole factor accounting for the dissipation of energy in impact, a Hertzian contact force model with permanent indentation is constructed. Utilizing energy and momentum considerations, the unknown parameters in the model are analytically evaluated in terms of a given coefficient of restitution and velocities before impact. The equations of motion of the two solids may then be integrated forward in time knowing the variation of the contact force during the contact period. For Illustration, an impact of two soft metallic particles is studied.


Author(s):  
Willem Petersen ◽  
John McPhee

For the multibody simulation of planetary rover operations, a wheel-soil contact model is necessary to represent the forces and moments between the tire and the soft soil. A novel nonlinear contact modelling approach based on the properties of the hypervolume of interpenetration is validated in this paper. This normal contact force model is based on the Winkler foundation model with nonlinear spring properties. To fully define the proposed normal contact force model for this application, seven parameters are required. Besides the geometry parameters that can be easily measured, three soil parameters representing the hyperelastic and plastic properties of the soil have to be identified. Since it is very difficult to directly measure the latter set of soil parameters, they are identified by comparing computer simulations with experimental results of drawbar pull tests performed under different slip conditions on the Juno rover of the Canadian Space Agency (CSA). A multibody dynamics model of the Juno rover including the new wheel/soil interaction model was developed and simulated in MapleSim. To identify the wheel/soil contact model parameters, the cost function of the model residuals of the kinematic data is minimized. The volumetric contact model is then tested by using the identified contact model parameters in a forward dynamics simulation of the rover on an irregular 3-dimensional terrain and compared against experiments.


2022 ◽  
Vol 168 ◽  
pp. 108739
Author(s):  
Jie Zhang ◽  
Xu Liang ◽  
Zhonghai Zhang ◽  
Guanhua Feng ◽  
Quanliang Zhao ◽  
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Author(s):  
Zhenhua Zhang ◽  
Liang Xu ◽  
Paulo Flores ◽  
Hamid M. Lankarani

Over the last two decades, extensive work has been conducted on dynamic effect of joint clearances in multibody mechanical systems. In contrast, little work has been devoted to optimizing the performance of these systems. In this study, analysis of revolute joint clearance is formulated in term of a Hertzian-based contact force model. For illustration, the classical slider-crank mechanism with a revolute clearance joint at the piston pin is presented, and a simulation model is developed using the analysis/design code MSC.ADAMS. The clearance is modeled as a pin-in-a-hole surface-to-surface dry contact, with appropriate contact force model between the joint and bearing surfaces. Different simulations are performed to demonstrate the influence of the joint clearance size and the input crank speed on the dynamic behavior of the system with the clearance joint. An innovative design-of-experiment (DOE)-based method for optimizing the performance of a mechanical system with the revolute joint clearance for different ranges of design parameters is then proposed. Based on the simulation model results from sample points, which are selected by a Latin hypercube sampling (LHS) method, a polynomial function Kriging meta-model is established instead of the actual simulation model. The reason for development and use of the meta-model is to bypass computationally intensive simulations of a computer model for different design parameter values in place of a more efficient and cost-effective mathematical model. Finally, numerical results obtained from two application examples, considering the different design parameters, including the joint clearance size, crank speed, and contact stiffness, are presented for further analyzing the dynamics of the revolute clearance joint in a mechanical system. This allows for predicting the influence of design parameter changes, in order to minimize contact forces, accelerations, and power requirements due to the existence of joint clearance.


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