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Numerical methods, and especially the finite-element method (FEM), are usually adopted for the analyses of shockwave propagation in nonlinear inelastic media. Noise or spurious oscillations, in the calculated stresses and displacements, frequently appear in the FEM solutions. This article introduces and describes a numeric filter based on least-square analysis that can smooth out such fictitious noise. The sliced least-square method (SLSM) filter is implemented in a finite elements program that solves 1D time integration of dynamic equilibrium sets of equations that simulate shockwave propagation in multi-layered soils supported by a hard stratum. Elastic and elasto-viscoplastic material models with dynamic yield surface constitutive relations are invoked to model sand, clay, and concrete materials in the analyses. Results of the analyses of shockwave propagation in layers of soil and concrete without the filter are compared with identical conditions with the inclusion of the new filter in the finite-element program. Oscillations in calculated stresses and displacements were observed in the results when no filter was included in the solution program. Solution results showed little or no noise with the application of the new filter. The predicted FEM analyses results were compared with physical test results with very good to excellent comparisons obtained.
elasto-viscoplastic material model, finite elements, implicit time integration, spatial filter, spurious oscillations, wave propagation
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