Two lower order nonconforming quadrilateral elements for the Reissner-Mindlin plate

This paper generalizes two nonconforming rectangular elements of the Reissner-Mindlin plate to the quadrilateral mesh. The first quadrilateral element uses the usual conforming bilinear element to approximate both components of the rotation, and the modified nonconforming rotated Q ₁ element enriched with the intersected term on each element to approximate the displacement, whereas the second one uses the enriched modified nonconforming rotated Q ₁ element to approximate both the rotation and the displacement. Both elements employ a more complicated shear force space to overcome the shear force locking, which will be described in detail in the introduction. We prove that both methods converge at optimal rates uniformly in the plate thickness t and the mesh distortion parameter in both the H ¹-and the L ²-norms, and consequently they are locking free. This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 10601003) and National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation of China (Grant No. 200718)     

Locking-free finite elements for the Reissner-Mindlin plate

Two new families of Reissner-Mindlin triangular finite elements are analyzed. One family, generalizing an element proposed by Zienkiewicz and Lefebvre, approximates (for the transverse displacement by continuous piecewise polynomials of degree , the rotation by continuous piecewise polynomials of degree plus bubble functions of degree , and projects the shear stress into the space of discontinuous piecewise polynomials of degree . The second family is similar to the first, but uses degree rather than degree continuous piecewise polynomials to approximate the rotation. We prove that for , the errors in the derivatives of the transverse displacement are bounded by and the errors in the rotation and its derivatives are bounded by and , respectively, for the first family, and by and , respectively, for the second family (with independent of the mesh size and plate thickness . These estimates are of optimal order for the second family, and so it is locking-free. For the first family, while the estimates for the derivatives of the transverse displacement are of optimal order, there is a deterioration of order in the approximation of the rotation and its derivatives for small, demonstrating locking of order . Numerical experiments using the lowest order elements of each family are presented to show their performance and the sharpness of the estimates. Additional experiments show the negative effects of eliminating the projection of the shear stress.

     

Analysis of some low order quadrilateral Reissner-Mindlin plate elements

Four quadrilateral elements for the Reissner-Mindlin plate model are considered. The elements are the stabilized MITC4 element of Lyly, Stenberg and Vihinen  (1933), the MIN4 element of Tessler and Hughes (1983), the Q4BL element of Zienkiewicz et al. (1993) and the FMIN4 element of Kikuchi and Ishii (1999). For all elements except the Q4BL element, a unifying variational formulation is introduced, and optimal H and L error bounds uniform in the plate thickness are proven. Moreover, we propose a modified Q4BL element and show that it admits the optimal H and L error bounds uniform in the plate thickness. In particular, we study the convergence behavior of all elements regarding the mesh distortion.

     

NONCONFORMING QUADRILATERAL ROTATED Q1 ELEMENT FOR REISSNER－MINDLIN PLATE

In this paper,we extend two rectangular elements for Reissner-Mindlin plate[9] to the quadrilateral case,Optimal H^1 and L^2 error bounds independent of the plate hickness are derived under a mild assumption on the mesh partition.     

关于Reissner-Mindlin板问题的线性格式

本文给出Ｒｅｉｓｓｎｅｒ－Ｍｉｎｄｌｉｎ板问题的线性格式[1]中的汽泡函数的最优选取。     

On Choices of Stress Modes for Lower Order Quadrilateral Reissner-Mindlin Plate Elements

1 Introduction In recent years, a lot of work for the Mindlin-Reissner (R-M) plate model has been done in the engineering and mathematical literatures (see [1-5, 7-15, 17] and references therein). As one knows, one of the most important problems is how to…     

Continuous finite element methods for Reissner-Mindlin plate problem

On triangle or quadrilateral meshes, two finite element methods are proposed for solving the Reissner-Mindlin plate problem either by augmenting the Galerkin formulation or modifying the plate-thickness. In these methods, the transverse displacement is approximated by conforming (bi)linear macroelements or (bi)quadratic elements, and the rotation by conforming (bi)linear elements. The shear stress can be locally computed from transverse displacement and rotation. Uniform in plate thickness, optimal error bounds are obtained for the transverse displacement, rotation, and shear stress in their natural norms. Numerical results are presented to illustrate the theoretical results.     

A posteriori error analysis for conforming MITC elements for Reissner-Mindlin plates

This paper establishes a unified a posteriori error estimator for a large class of conforming finite element methods for the Reissner-Mindlin plate problem. The analysis is based on some assumption (H) on the consistency of the reduction integration to avoid shear locking. The reliable and efficient a posteriori error estimator is robust in the sense that the reliability and efficiency constants are independent of the plate thickness . The presented analysis applies to all conforming MITC elements and all conforming finite element methods without reduced integration from the literature.

     

A locking-free anisotropic nonconforming rectangular finite element approximation for the planar elasticity problem

This paper deals with a new nonconforming anisotropic rectangular finite element approximation for the planar elasticity problem with pure displacement boundary condition. By use of the special properties of this element, and by introducing the complementary space and a series of novel techniques, the optimal error estimates of the energy norm and the L^2-norm are obtained. The restrictions of regularity assumption and quasi-uniform assumption or the inverse assumption on the meshes required in the conventional finite element methods analysis are to be got rid of and the applicable scope of the nonconforming finite elements is extended.     

New expansions of numerical eigenvalues for by nonconforming elements

The paper explores new expansions of the eigenvalues for in with Dirichlet boundary conditions by the bilinear element (denoted ) and three nonconforming elements, the rotated bilinear element (denoted ), the extension of (denoted ) and Wilson's elements. The expansions indicate that and provide upper bounds of the eigenvalues, and that and Wilson's elements provide lower bounds of the eigenvalues. By extrapolation, the convergence rate can be obtained, where is the maximal boundary length of uniform rectangles. Numerical experiments are carried out to verify the theoretical analysis made.

     

Reissner-Mindlin板问题的一种有限元近似解

通过应用对板的厚度做局部修改的混合有限元方法,计算R e issner-M ind lin板问题的近似解,得到横向位移和旋度的误差分别在H1模和L2模意义下的阶都是2,并且它们不依赖于板的厚度.     

Morley type non‐C0 nonconforming rectangular plate finite elements on anisotropic meshes

In this article, two Morley type non‐C⁰ nonconforming rectangular finite elements are discussed to numerically solve the fourth order plate bending problem under anisotropic meshes. The optimal anisotropic interpolation error and consistency error estimates are obtained by using some novel approaches. Some numerical tests are given to confirm the theoretical analysis. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2010     

High accuracy nonconforming finite elements for fourth order problems

The approach of nonconforming finite element method admits users to solve the partial differential equations with lower complexity,but the accuracy is usually low.In this paper,we present a family of highaccuracy nonconforming finite element methods for fourth order problems in arbitrary dimensions.The finite element methods are given in a unified way with respect to the dimension.This is an effort to reveal the balance between the accuracy and the complexity of finite element methods.     

Reissner-Mindlin板问题带约束非协调旋转Q_1有限元方法

本文利用带约束非协调旋转Q_1元逼近Reissner-Mindlin板问题中旋度的两个分量.并分别选择Wilson元、双线性元和带约束非协调旋转Q_1元逼近挠度,相应地选取不连续的矢量值分片线性函数空间、最低阶旋转Raviart-Thomas元空间和矢量值分片常数函数空间为离散的剪应力空间,在矩形网格上构造了三个板元.通过证明一个离散的Korn不等式,并借助MITC4元的解构造了旋度、挠度和剪应力一个具有某种特殊且关键的可交换性的插值.再利用Helmholtz分解分析相容性误差.我们证明了这三个矩形元在能量范数意义下与板厚无关的一致最优收敛性.数值算例验证了我们的理论结果.     

The streamline-diffusion method for nonconforming Qrot1 elements on rectangular tensor-product meshes

When the streamline–diffusion finite element method isapplied to convection–diffusion problems using nonconformingtrial spaces, it has previously been observed that stabilityand convergence problems may occur. It has consequently beenproposed that certain jump terms should be added to the bilinearform to obtain the same stability and convergence behaviouras in the conforming case. The analysis in this paper showsthat for the Q^rot₁ 1 element on rectangular shape-regular tensor-productmeshes, no jump terms are needed to stabilize the method. Inthis case moreover, for smooth solutions we derive in the streamline–diffusionnorm convergence of order h^3/2 (uniformly in the diffusion coefficientof the problem), where h is the mesh diameter. (This estimateis already known for the conforming case.) Our analysis alsoshows that similar stability and convergence results fail tohold true for analogous piecewise linear nonconforming elements.     

12参双参数矩形板元的误差估计

双参数方法是构造高阶问题有限元的有效方法．以此方法构造的双参数元是一种非标准元，以往文献中只证明了它的收敛性．此文针对具体12参双参数矩形板元给出它的误差估计式，并分析了节点参数的扰动量．文中的分析方法也适合于其它双参数矩形板元的误差估计．     

Extension theorems for plate elements with applications

Extension theorems for plate elements are established. Their applications to the analysis of nonoverlapping domain decomposition methods for solving the plate bending problems are presented. Numerical results support our theory.

     

Uniformly stable rectangular elements for fourth order elliptic singular perturbation problems

In this article, we consider rectangular finite element methods for fourth order elliptic singular perturbation problems. We show that the non‐ C⁰ rectangular Morley element is uniformly convergent in the energy norm with respect to the perturbation parameter. We also propose a C⁰ extended high order rectangular Morley element and prove the uniform convergence. Finally, we do some numerical experiments to confirm the theoretical results. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2013     

An addition to the -theorem for subharmonic and entire functions of zero lower order

We obtain a sharp asymptotic relation between the infimum and the maximum on a circle of a subharmonic function of zero lower order. An example is constructed, which shows the sharpness of the relation in the class of entire functions of zero order such that , where as .

     

A posteriori error analysis of nonconforming finite volume elements for general second‐order elliptic PDEs

In this article, we study the a posteriori H¹ and L² error estimates for Crouzeix‐Raviart nonconforming finite volume element discretization of general second‐order elliptic problems in ?². The error estimators yield global upper and local lower bounds. Finally, numerical experiments are performed to illustrate the theoretical findings. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2011