Principal Stresses in Elasticity

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3 years 2 months ago #3986 by NV

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In structural engineering we are often interested in minimum and maximum principal stress. In NGSolve we are able to calculate the eigenstress by something like (assuming stresses to be a 3x3 matrix valued coefficient function):

Code:

eig_stresses = stresses.eig()

Then the first 9 entries of correspond to the stress eigenvectors and

Code:

eig_stresses[9], eig_stresses[10], eig_stresses[11]

are the eigenvalues. However, it seemed to be that the order of the eigenvalues is not fixed. Is there an efficient procedure to order them into maximal, middle and minimal principal values?
In 2D I could use

Code:

max_princ = IfPos(eig_stresses[4]-eig_stresses[5],eig_stresses[4],eig_stresses[5])

but in 3D this is very inefficient due to the need of multiple comparisons.

Best regards,
Nils

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3 years 2 months ago #3988 by mneunteufel

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Hi Nils,

using staggered IfPos commands the comparisons can be written relatively compact for the 3D case:

Code:

max_princ = IfPos(eig_stresses[9]-eig_stresses[10],
              IfPos(eig_stresses[9]-eig_stresses[11],eig_stresses[9],eig_stresses[11]),
              IfPos(eig_stresses[10]-eig_stresses[11],eig_stresses[10],eig_stresses[11]))

min_princ = IfPos(eig_stresses[9]-eig_stresses[10],
              IfPos(eig_stresses[10]-eig_stresses[11],eig_stresses[11],eig_stresses[10]),
              IfPos(eig_stresses[9]-eig_stresses[11],eig_stresses[11],eig_stresses[9]))

middle_princ = eig_stresses[9]+eig_stresses[10]+eig_stresses[11] - max_princ - min_princ

Best,
Michael

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3 years 2 months ago #3993 by NV

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Thanks for your help Michael.
Your solution works but for larger 3D models it is very slow.

It would be great if there is a solution which works faster and is implemented in the ngsolve environment. E.g. having .eig() already sorted or another option method .sortedEig()

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3 years 2 months ago #3994 by mrambausek

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Did you try to compile 'max_princ', eg. via

Code:

max_princ.Compile()

or the actual expression in which max_princ is used ('Compile' works recursively)?

If this is not done, the full Eigensystem will be re-evaluated multiple times with the same outcome, which is quite inefficient.

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3 years 2 months ago #3996 by Nils

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Thank you very much Matthias.
I did not set the .Compile() in the Draw function, now it's much faster.

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