14 Flocking Rules Governing Swarm Robot as Tool to Describe …
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Fig. 14.12 Corresponding von Mises plot
Fig. 14.13 Beam
deformation
results, we can conclude that the deformation of the beam can sometimes be very
similar to the FEM solution but the stress diagram of von Mises is quite always
unsatisfactory. We now stop trial and errors to think about the needed connection
between the tool’s parameters and the constitutive features of the material. So far
we have to think about the needs to a better understanding of the physic behind
the tool and what should be driving our choices in the tool to describe a material
continuum. We have to remember that the material parameters Y and ν do not appear
explicitly in our algorithm but they are hidden in the interaction relationship between
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Fig. 14.12 Corresponding von Mises plot
Fig. 14.13 Beam
deformation
results, we can conclude that the deformation of the beam can sometimes be very
similar to the FEM solution but the stress diagram of von Mises is quite always
unsatisfactory. We now stop trial and errors to think about the needed connection
between the tool’s parameters and the constitutive features of the material. So far
we have to think about the needs to a better understanding of the physic behind
the tool and what should be driving our choices in the tool to describe a material
continuum. We have to remember that the material parameters Y and ν do not appear
explicitly in our algorithm but they are hidden in the interaction relationship between