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PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOURTEENTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL STRUCTURES TECHNOLOGY
Edited by: B.H.V. Topping and J. Kruis
Paper 17.1

Adaptive coupled discrete/continuous approach for the forming of materials

F. Yahya1, C. Hubert1, N. Leconte1,2 and L. Dubar1

1LAMIH, Univ. Polytechnique Hauts-de-France, Valenciennes, France
2ONERA / DMAS / CRD, Lille, France

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
F. Yahya, C. Hubert, N. Leconte, L. Dubar, "Adaptive coupled discrete/continuous approach for the forming of materials", in B.H.V. Topping, J. Kruis, (Editors), "Proceedings of the Fourteenth International Conference on Computational Structures Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Edinburgh, UK, Online volume: CCC 3, Paper 17.1, 2022, doi:10.4203/ccc.3.17.1
Keywords: discrete element method, finite element method, coupling, fields transfer, crack, fatigue, train wheels.

Abstract
During the manufacturing process of train wheels, industries encounter limitations to study the fatigue cracking problem with the finite element method (FEM). Another method, the discrete element method (DEM), is more adapted to study these types of problems, but it is very expensive. This paper shows a strategy to switch from an initially purely FEM computation to a combined FEM-DEM computation. This switching made it possible to take advantage of both methods. To achieve this strategy, a coupling method and a field transfer method between FEM and DEM have been developed. To validate these methods, numerical test cases are carried out

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