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Area of Science:

  • Materials Science
  • Computational Mechanics
  • Bioinspired Materials

Background:

  • Tessellation-based microstructures (Voronoi, Laguerre) model bioinspired composites.
  • Geometric degeneracies (short edges, sliver faces) impede meshing and simulations.
  • Cohesive-zone simulations of interfacial fracture are computationally intensive.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce and evaluate a geometric regularization step for tessellation-based microstructures.
  • To quantify the impact of regularization on finite element discretization and cohesive fracture simulation.
  • To enable efficient and large-scale simulations of bioinspired composites.

Main Methods:

  • Geometric regularization enforcing minimum feature length before meshing.
  • Systematic quantification of regularization impact on meshing and simulation performance.
  • Application to a 3D bioinspired organic-inorganic composite with cohesive interfaces.

Main Results:

  • Regularized tessellations show improved edge-length and face-diameter distributions.
  • Meshability significantly improved, enabling practical resolutions.
  • Reduced element counts (nearly 5x) and increased stable time increment (4 orders of magnitude).
  • Transformed a diverging analysis into a robust, converging simulation.

Conclusions:

  • Geometric regularization is critical for efficient, large-scale cohesive fracture simulations.
  • This preprocessing step overcomes limitations of traditional tessellation methods.
  • Enables robust computational modeling of complex bioinspired material interfaces.