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Structural Engineering and Mechanics Volume 62, Number 2, April25 2017 , pages 151-162 DOI: https://doi.org/10.12989/sem.2017.62.2.151 |
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Assessments of dissipative structure-dependent integration methods |
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Shuenn-Yih Chang
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| Abstract | ||
| Two Chang-a dissipative family methods and two KR-a family methods were developed for time integration recently. Although the four family methods are in the category of the dissipative structure-dependent integration methods, their performances may be drastically different due to the detrimental property of weak instability or overshoot for the two KR-a family methods. This weak instability or overshoot will result in an adverse overshooting behavior or even numerical instability. In general, the four family methods can possess very similar numerical properties, such as unconditional stability, second-order accuracy, explicit formulation and controllable numerical damping. However, the two KR-a family methods are found to possess a weak instability property or overshoot in the high frequency responses to any nonzero initial conditions and thus this property will hinder them from practical applications. Whereas, the two Chang-a dissipative family methods have no such an adverse property. As a result, the performances of the two Chang-a dissipative family methods are much better than for the two KR-a family methods. Analytical assessments of all the four family methods are conducted in this work and numerical examples are used to confirm the analytical predictions. | ||
| Key Words | ||
| weak instability; nonzero initial conditions; overshoot; structure-dependent integration method | ||
| Address | ||
| Shuenn-Yih Chang: Department of Civil Engineering, National Taipei University of Technology, 1, Section 3, Jungshiau East Road, Taipei 106-08, Republic of China | ||