The study of nonlinear dynamic behavior of laminate composed of steel and rubber layersalso referred as “Shim”, used for vibro-acoustic insulation in brake system, isinvestigated. The simulation of the vibro-acoustic nonlinear behavior of Shim depending onfrequency, taking into account the large deformations and various nonlinearhyper-viscoelastic laws of rubber are considered. This paper presents a solution tocontribute in the identification of the best design of Shim in terms of damping vibrationof brake systems, using analytical and numerical method. The choice of the best structuredepends essentially on the nature of rubber, on the stacking sequence of materials, ontheir thickness, on the number of layers and on volume fraction of rubber. An analyticalstudy, with the use of the transfer matrix method is presented. A model on the finiteelement software ANSYS is constructed. The results lead to conclusions about the beststructure and design of Shim in term of vibro-acoustic insulation.

An axisymmetric formulation for modeling three-dimensional deformation of structures of revolution is presented. The axisymmetric deformation model is described using the cylindrical coordinate system. Large displacement effects and material nonlinearities and anisotropy are accommodated by the formulation. Mathematical derivation of the formulation is given, and an example is presented to demonstrate the capabilities and efficiency of the technique compared to the full three-dimensional model.

We give a first contribution to the homogenization of many-body structures that are exposed to large deformations and obey the noninterpenetration constraint. The many-body structures considered here resemble cord-belts like they are used to reinforce pneumatic tires. We establish and analyze an idealized model for such many-body structures in which the subbodies are assumed to be hyperelastic with a polyconvex energy density and shall exhibit an initial brittle bond with their neighbors. Noninterpenetration of matter is taken into account by the Ciarlet-Nečas condition and we demand deformations to preserve the local orientation. By studying Γ-convergence of the corresponding total energies as the subbodies become smaller and smaller, we find that the homogenization limits allow for deformations of class special functions of bounded variation while the aforementioned kinematic constraints are conserved. Depending on the many-body structures’ geometries, the homogenization limits feature new mechanical effects ranging from anisotropy to additional kinematic constraints. Furthermore, we introduce the concept of predeformations in order to provide approximations for special functions of bounded variation while preserving the natural kinematic constraints of geometrically nonlinear solid mechanics.

Il est impératif pour l’ingénieur de s’assurer de la validité de ses outils de modélisation numérique et il lui revient de vérifier s’ils donnent la solution attendue pour un problème donné. Dans un logiciel d’éléments-finis, ceci peut être fait par l’utilisation de solutions analytiques lorsqu’elles existent, ou par la méthode des solutions manufacturées (MSM). Nous proposons dans ce travail d’étendre la MSM aux problèmes de contact unilatéral en grandes déformations pour lesquels, à notre connaissance, il n’existe pas de solutions analytiques non triviales. Nous montrerons comment l’utiliser comme un outil de vérification pour l’ingénieur. De plus, nous analyserons la précision et les taux de convergence de différents espaces d’approximation mixtes (déplacement-pression de contact), sur des éléments triangulaires et quadrangulaires.