Development of Parallelized Idealized Explicit FEM Using GPU

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  • GPUを用いた並列化理想化陽解法FEMの開発

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Numerical simulations such as Finite Element Method (FEM) are widely used as tool of structural analyses in both design and production. However, in the application of FEM to welding problems, the simulation scale is usually limited to the welding joint level. Only a few large-scale welding analyses are performed on existing research because welding is transient problem and show strong nonlinearity. In such cases, it is necessary to use static implicit FEM to achieve an accurate analysis, but the larger analysis scale requires larger memory consumption and computing time. Thus, we previously proposed Idealized Explicit FEM (IEFEM) to achieve shorter computing time and lower memory consumption.<br>Since IEFEM is based on dynamic explicit FEM, it is possible to perform the calculation for each degree of freedom (DOF) and element. Such characteristic indicates that IEFEM is suitable for parallelization. Then, in this study, we developed parallelized IEFEM using a graphics processing unit (GPU). The usefulness and validity of the developed method are considered by analyzing a 3-dimensional multi-pass moving heat source problem, which is very difficult to analyze with commercial FEM software because of its analytical scale. As a result, it is found that parallelized IEFEM accelerated by a GPU can analyze a large-scale problem having over 1,000,000 DOFs on a single PC.

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  • CRID
    1390001204725339008
  • NII Article ID
    130004445726
  • DOI
    10.2207/qjjws.31.23
  • COI
    1:CAS:528:DC%2BC3sXlvVans7s%3D
  • ISSN
    24348252
    02884771
  • Text Lang
    ja
  • Data Source
    • JaLC
    • Crossref
    • CiNii Articles
    • KAKEN
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