A piecewise partitioning Scaled Boundary Finite Element algorithm to solve viscoelastic problems with cyclic symmetry.

Scaled Boundary Finite Element Method (SBFEM) and a temporally adaptive algorithm are combined to solve viscoelastic problems. By expanding variables at a discretized time interval, a spatially and temporally coupled viscoelastic problem is decoupled into a series of recursive spatial problems, which are solved by SBFEM, the computing accuracy in the time domain is controlled via a self-adaptive process. For the cyclic symmetric structures, the cyclic symmetry is exploited to reduce the computational expense of SBFEM, both the eigenvalue and system equations of SBFEM are partitioned into a number of smaller independent problems, which are solved by a partitioning algorithm. Two numerical examples are given to verify and illustrate the proposed approach. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]