Electromagnetic and Thermal Modeling of Composite Materials Using Multilayer Shell Elements

Author

Ramdane, B. ; Trichet, D. ; Belkadi, M. ; Saidi, T. ; Fouladgar, J.

Author_Institution

Inst. de Rech. en Electrotech. et Electron. de Nantes Atlantique (IREENA), St. Nazaire, France

Volume

47

Issue

5

fYear

2011

fDate

5/1/2011 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

1134

Lastpage

1137

Abstract

In this paper, a methodology based on shell elements is presented to model the electromagnetic behavior of multilayered conductive composite materials. The standard 3-D finite-element formulation is accomplished by a multilevel shell element representation. This leads to a reduced number of unknowns which improve the system convergence and consequently the computational time. The model developed will be validated with classical 3-D finite-element method and experimental results.

Keywords

composite materials; eddy currents; electrical conductivity; finite element analysis; multilayers; classical 3D finite-element method; electromagnetic modeling; multilayer shell elements; multilayered conductive composite materials; thermal modeling; Computational modeling; Electromagnetic heating; Finite element methods; Mathematical model; Nonhomogeneous media; Shape; Three dimensional displays; Composite materials; eddy currents; electrothermal effects; finite-element methods (FEMs); induction heating; multilayer shell element;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Magnetics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0018-9464

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/TMAG.2010.2075918

Filename

5570965