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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 108
PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIFTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CIVIL, STRUCTURAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING COMPUTING
Edited by: J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis and B.H.V. Topping
Paper 226

Automatic Mesh Generation and Analysis for Structural Dynamics

C. Birk1, C. Song2, X. Chen2 and D. Wijesekara2

1Department of Civil Engineering, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
2School of Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
C. Birk, C. Song, X. Chen, D. Wijesekara, "Automatic Mesh Generation and Analysis for Structural Dynamics", in J. Kruis, Y. Tsompanakis, B.H.V. Topping, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering Computing", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 226, 2015. doi:10.4203/ccp.108.226
Keywords: automatic mesh generation, quadtree decomposition, scaled boundary finite element method, dynamic analysis.

Summary
This paper summarizes two approaches to automatically create quadtree meshes for the dynamic analysis of structures and soil-structure systems based on graphical information. It shows how the scaled boundary finite element method can be used to facilitate the dynamic analysis on such highly structured meshes without encountering the ubiquitous hanging node problem. The coupling with a unit-impulse-response-based formulation of the scaled boundary finite element method for unbounded domains is also described. Three examples are presented to illustrate the potential of the proposed approach.

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