Vergelijkend AFM Onderzoek: Microstructuur van bitumen in relatie tot healing

In this report we present the background, the scientific and experimental approach and the results of AFM experiments performed on two different batches of bitumen. The specific bitumen researched in this project has also been studied in the context of the InfraQuest project ‘Pragmatisch Healing Onderzoek’. It has been known for quite some time...

Comparison of the deflated preconditioned conjugate gradient method and parallel direct solver for composite materials

The demand for large FE meshes increases as parallel computing becomes the standard in FE simulations. Direct and iterative solution methods are used to solve the resulting linear systems. Many applications concern composite materials, which are characterized by large discontinuities in the material properties. An example of such a material is...

On the use of rigid body modes in the deflated preconditioned conjugate gradient method

Large discontinuities in material properties, such as encountered in composite materials, lead to ill-conditioned systems of linear equations. These discontinuities give rise to small eigenvalues that may negatively affect the convergence of iterative solution methods such as the Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient (PCG) method. This paper...