43-Issue 8

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Browsing 43-Issue 8 by Subject "CCS Concepts: Computing methodologies → Physical simulation"

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    Curved Three-Director Cosserat Shells with Strong Coupling
    (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024) Löschner, Fabian; Fernández-Fernández, José Antonio; Jeske, Stefan Rhys; Bender, Jan; Skouras, Melina; Wang, He
    Continuum-based shell models are an established approach for the simulation of thin deformables in computer graphics. However, existing research in physically-based animation is mostly focused on shear-rigid Kirchhoff-Love shells. In this work we explore three-director Cosserat (micropolar) shells which introduce additional rotational degrees of freedom. This microrotation field models transverse shearing and in-plane drilling rotations. We propose an incremental potential formulation of the Cosserat shell dynamics which allows for strong coupling with frictional contact and other physical systems. We evaluate a corresponding finite element discretization for non-planar shells using second-order elements which alleviates shear-locking and permits simulation of curved geometries. Our formulation and the discretization, in particular of the rotational degrees of freedom, is designed to integrate well with typical simulation approaches in physically-based animation. While the discretization of the rotations requires some care, we demonstrate that they do not pose significant numerical challenges in Newton's method. In our experiments we also show that the codimensional shell model is consistent with the respective three-dimensional model. We qualitatively compare our formulation with Kirchhoff-Love shells and demonstrate intriguing use cases for the additional modes of control over dynamic deformations offered by the Cosserat model such as directly prescribing rotations or angular velocities and influencing the shell's curvature.
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    Generalized eXtended Finite Element Method for Deformable Cutting via Boolean Operations
    (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024) Ton-That, Quoc-Minh; Kry, Paul G.; Andrews, Sheldon; Skouras, Melina; Wang, He
    Traditional mesh-based methods for cutting deformable bodies rely on modifying the simulation mesh by deleting, duplicating, deforming or subdividing its elements. Unfortunately, such topological changes eventually lead to instability, reduced accuracy, or computational efficiency challenges. Hence, state of the art algorithms favor the extended finite element method (XFEM), which decouples the cut geometry from the simulation mesh, allowing for stable and accurate cuts at an additional computational cost that is local to the cut region. However, in the 3-dimensional setting, current XFEM frameworks are limited by the cutting configurations that they support. In particular, intersecting cuts are either prohibited or require sophisticated special treatment. Our work presents a general XFEM formulation that is applicable to the 1-, 2-, and 3-dimensional setting without sacrificing the desirable properties of the method. In particular, we propose a generalized enrichment which supports multiple intersecting cuts of various degrees of non-linearity by leveraging recent advances in robust mesh-Boolean technology. This novel strategy additionally enables analytic discontinuous integration schemes required to compute mass, force and elastic energy. We highlight the simplicity, expressivity and accuracy of our XFEM implementation across various scenarios in which intersecting cutting patterns are featured.
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    Strongly Coupled Simulation of Magnetic Rigid Bodies
    (The Eurographics Association and John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 2024) Westhofen, Lukas; Fernández-Fernández, José Antonio; Jeske, Stefan Rhys; Bender, Jan; Skouras, Melina; Wang, He
    We present a strongly coupled method for the robust simulation of linear magnetic rigid bodies. Our approach describes the magnetic effects as part of an incremental potential function. This potential is inserted into the reformulation of the equations of motion for rigid bodies as an optimization problem. For handling collision and friction, we lean on the Incremental Potential Contact (IPC) method. Furthermore, we provide a novel, hybrid explicit / implicit time integration scheme for the magnetic potential based on a distance criterion. This reduces the fill-in of the energy Hessian in cases where the change in magnetic potential energy is small, leading to a simulation speedup without compromising the stability of the system. The resulting system yields a strongly coupled method for the robust simulation of magnetic effects. We showcase the robustness in theory by analyzing the behavior of the magnetic attraction against the contact resolution. Furthermore, we display stability in practice by simulating exceedingly strong and arbitrarily shaped magnets. The results are free of artifacts like bouncing for time step sizes larger than with the equivalent weakly coupled approach. Finally, we showcase the utility of our method in different scenarios with complex joints and numerous magnets.