Analysis and Numerical Treatment of Linearized Elastostatic Problem
with Random Media
Fox Cheng
Mathematics, UCSD
Abstract:
Stochastic mechanical behaviors of random media is relevant to various of
engineering fields, One example of random media is, in order to
simulate the fault formation of earthquake, stochastic treatment on ground
surface is applied which consists of several layers of not fully known
properties and structures.
In this presentation, we examine a general linearized elastostatic problem
in random media. a complete analysis in solution space is provided
including existence and uniqueness. The single integral formulation of
weak form and stochastic collocation method are applied to solve this
problem. Moreover, the prior error estimators of stochastic collocation
method are derived which imply the rate of convergence is exponential
along with the order of polynomial increasing in the space of random
variables. As expected, the numerical experiments admit the exponential
rate of convergence verified by a posterior error analysis. At last,
a adaptive strategy derived by the posterior error analysis is designed.