Síntese de mecanismos flexíveis com restrição em tensão e otimização topológica de estruturas sujeitas a contato e atrito

• Autor(a) principal: Lopes, Cinthia Gomes
• Data de Publicação: 2017
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações do LNCC
• Texto Completo: https://tede.lncc.br/handle/tede/258
• topic: Derivada topológica; Otimização topológica; Mecanismos flexiveis; Topological optimization; Topological derivative; CNPQ::CIENCIAS EXATAS E DA TERRA::MATEMATICA::ANALISE::EQUACOES DIFERENCIAIS PARCIAIS

The topological derivative was rigorously defined by Sokolowski and Zochowski in 1999. Since then it has been shown as an important tool for solving different kind of problems such as: topology optimization, inverse problems, image processing, multiscale constitutive modeling, fracture mechanics sensitivity analysis, damage evolution modeling and contact problems sensitivity analysis. The topological derivative is obtained from the asymptotic analysis of classic solutions to boundary value problems in singularly perturbed domain, together with asymptotic analysis of shape functionals with respect to the parameter that governs the size of the topological perturbation. In this work, the topological derivative concept is applied in the context of compliant mechanisms design with stress constraints and topology optimization of structures subject to contact condition and given friction. Compliant mechanisms are mechanical devices composed by one single peace that transforms simple inputs into complex movements by amplifying and changing their direction. Hence they are easy to manufacture at a very small scale such microtools has been applied in different contexts including microsurgery, cell manipulation and nanotechnology processing. In this work, a new approach based on the topological derivative concept to deal with the design of compliant mechanisms is proposed. This approach consists in introducing a von Mises stress constraint to the problem which naturally avoids hinges and provides mechanisms that satisfy resistance and functionality criteria. Contact problems are naturally nonlinear and their main difficult comes out from the fact that the effective contact area is not known a priori. Since the problem is non-linear, the domain decomposition technique together with the Steklov-Poincaré pseudo-differential boundary operator are used for asymptotic analysis purposes with respect to the small parameter associated with the size of the topological perturbation. As a fundamental result, the expansion of the strain energy coincides with the expansion of the Steklov-Poincar\'{e} operator on the boundary of the truncated domain, leading to the associated topological derivative. Finally, the obtained result is applied in a case study that consists in the topology optimization of an eyebar belonging to an eyebar-chain of the Hercílio Luz Bridge in Florianópolis - SC, Brazil.