Highly accurate symplectic element based on two variational principles

For the stability requirement of numerical resultants, the mathematical theory of classical mixed methods are relatively complex. However, generalized mixed methods are automatically stable, and their building process is simple and straightforward. In this paper, based on the seminal idea of the generalized mixed methods, a simple, stable, and highly accurate 8-node noncompatible symplectic element (NCSE8) was developed by the combination of the modified Hellinger-Reissner mixed variational principle and the minimum energy principle. To ensure the accuracy of in-plane stress results, a simultaneous equation approach was also suggested. Numerical experimentation shows that the accuracy of stress results of NCSE8 are nearly the same as that of displacement methods, and they are in good agreement with the exact solutions when the mesh is relatively fine. NCSE8 has advantages of the clearing concept, easy calculation by a finite element computer program, higher accuracy and wide applicability for various linear elasticity compressible and nearly incompressible material problems. It is possible that NCSE8 becomes even more advantageous for the fracture problems due to its better accuracy of stresses.     

Theoretical basis and general optimal formulations of isoparametric generalized hybrid/mixed element model for improved stress analysis

By the modified three-field Hu-Washizu principle, this paper establishes a theoretical foundation and general convenient formulations to generate convergent stable generalized hybrid/mixed element (GH/ME) model which is invariant with respect to coordinate, insensitive to geometric distortion and suitable for improved stress computation. In the two proposed formulations, the stress equilibrium and orthogonality constraints are imposed through incompatible displacement and internal strain modes respectively. The proposed model by the general formulations in this paper is characterized by including assumed stress/strain, assumed stress, variable-node, singular, compatible and incompatible GH/ME models. When using regular meshes or the constant values of the isoparametric Jacobian Det in the assumed strain interpolation, the incompatible GH/ME model degenerates to the hybrid/mixed element model. Both general and concrete guidelines for the optimal selection of element shape functions are suggested. By means of the GH/ME theory in this paper, a family of new GH/ME can be and have been easily constructed. The software can also be developed conveniently because all the standard subroutines for the corresponding isoparametric displacement elements can be utilized directly. Modified version of a conference paper presented at Int. Conf. on EPMESC IV, July 29–Aug. 3, 1992, Dalian, China     

Elastic dynamics variational principle for nonlinear elastic body

Based on paper, the variational principle and generalized variational principle of elastic dynamics for elastic body with nonlinear stress-strain relations are introduced in this paper. The generalized instantaneous variational principle is also raised for the mixed harmonious displacement element and the mixed harmonious stress element.     

Hybrid finite element formulations for elastodynamic analysis in the frequency domain

Three alternative sets of hybrid formulations to solve linear elastodynamic problems by the finite element method are presented. They are termed hybrid–mixed, hybrid and hybrid–Trefftz and differ essentially on the field conditions that the approximation functions are constrained to satisfy locally. Two models, namely the displacement and the stress models, are obtained for each formulation depending on whether the tractions or the boundary displacements are the field chosen to implement interelement continuity. A Fourier time discretization is used to uncouple the solving system in the frequency domain. The basic space discretization criterion is implemented directly on the fundamental relations of elastodynamics and used to derive the stress and displacement models of the hybrid–mixed formulation. The hybrid and hybrid–Trefftz formulations are presented in sequence as the variants of the hybrid–mixed formulation obtained by progressively increasing the constraints on the approximation bases. Numerical implementation aspects are briefly discussed and the performance of the finite element models is illustrated with numerical applications.     

Augmented mixed finite element methods for a vorticity‐based velocity–pressure–stress formulation of the Stokes problem in 2D

In this paper, we consider an augmented velocity–pressure–stress formulation of the 2D Stokes problem, in which the stress is defined in terms of the vorticity and the pressure, and then we introduce and analyze stable mixed finite element methods to solve the associated Galerkin scheme. In this way, we further extend similar procedures applied recently to linear elasticity and to other mixed formulations for incompressible fluid flows. Indeed, our approach is based on the introduction of the Galerkin least‐squares‐type terms arising from the corresponding constitutive and equilibrium equations, and from the Dirichlet boundary condition for the velocity, all of them multiplied by stabilization parameters. Then, we show that these parameters can be suitably chosen so that the resulting operator equation induces a strongly coercive bilinear form, whence the associated Galerkin scheme becomes well posed for any choice of finite element subspaces. In particular, we can use continuous piecewise linear velocities, piecewise constant pressures, and rotated Raviart–Thomas elements for the stresses. Next, we derive reliable and efficient residual‐based a posteriori error estimators for the augmented mixed finite element schemes. In addition, several numerical experiments illustrating the performance of the augmented mixed finite element methods, confirming the properties of the a posteriori estimators, and showing the behavior of the associated adaptive algorithms are reported. The present work should be considered as a first step aiming finally to derive augmented mixed finite element methods for vorticity‐based formulations of the 3D Stokes problem. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

AN EXACT ELEMENT METHOD FOR THE BENDING OF NONHOMOGENEOUS REISSNER’S PLATE

In this paper,based on the step reduction method and exact analytic method,a new method,the exact element method for constructing finite element,is presented.Since the new method doesn’t need variational principle,it can be applied to solve non-positive and positive definite partial differential equations with arbitrary variable coefficients.By this method,a triangle noncompatible element with15 degrees of freedom is derived to solve the bending of nonhomogenous Reissner’s plate.Because the displacement parameters at the nodal point only contain deflection and rotation angle.it is convenient to deal with arbitrary boundary conditions.In this paper,the convergence of displacement and stress resultants is proved.The element obtained by the present method can be used for thin and thick plates as well,Four numerical examples are given at the end of this paper,which indicates that we can obtain satisfactory results and have higher numerical precision.     

用有限元广义混合法分析不可压缩或几乎不可压缩弹性体

不可压缩或几乎不可压缩问题在数学上表现为最小 势能原理中的某些项趋于无穷大,使得有限元方程产生病态。本文给出了不可压缩或几乎不可压缩弹性分析的广义混合变分原理,以此为基础建立了该类问题的有限元广义混合法。该变分原理的泛函中不含有上面这种奇异项,故其有限元方程不会产生病态。算例表明该有限元法可以同时进行可压缩、不可压缩或几乎不可压缩弹性分析,且精度良好;有限元常规位移法及Hermann法是该法的特例。     

The application of 2D base force element method (BFEM) to geometrically non-linear analysis

Based on the concept of the base forces by Gao, a new finite element method – the base force element method (BFEM) on complementary energy principle for two-dimensional geometrically non-linear problems is presented. A 4-mid-node plane element model of the BFEM for geometrically non-linear problem is derived by assuming that the stress is uniformly distributed on each sides of a plane element. The explicit formulations of the control equations for the BFEM are derived using the modified complementary energy principle. The BFEM is naturally universal for small displacement and large displacement problems. A number of example problems are solved using the BFEM and the results are compared with corresponding analytical solutions and those obtained from the standard displacement finite element method. A good agreement of the results, and better performance of the BFEM, compared to the displacement model, in the large displacement and large rotation calculations, is observed.     

The B-bar method and the limitation principles

The generalized elastic material provides a reference model to cast in a unitary framework many structural models which are based on nonlinear monotone multivalued relations such as viscoelasticity, plasticity and unilateral models. The modified forms of the Hu-Washizu and Hellinger-Reissner principles and the displacement-based variational formulation are recovered for the generalized elastic material starting from a functional in the complete set of state variables. The related limitation principles are derived and their specialization to elasticity and elastoplasticity with mixed hardening are provided. It is shown that the interpolating fields for the pressure and the volumetric strain usually adopted in the B-bar method lead to a limitation principle. Accordingly the same elastic and elastoplastic solutions can be obtained by means of an approximate mixed displacement⧸pressure variational principle. A second application is concerned with the conditions ensuring the coincidence of the solutions between an approximate two-field mixed formulation and the displacement-based method. Numerical examples are provided to show the coincidence of the solutions obtained from different mixed finite element formulations, in elasticity or elastoplasticity, under the validity of the limitation principles.     

Evaluation of stress intensity factors for bi-material interface cracks using displacement jump methods

The aim of the present work is to investigate the numerical modeling of interfacial cracks that may appear at the interface between two isotropic elastic materials. The extended finite element method is employed to analyze brittle and bi-material interfacial fatigue crack growth by computing the mixed mode stress intensity factors (SIF). Three different approaches are introduced to compute the SIFs. In the first one, mixed mode SIF is deduced from the computation of the contour integral as per the classical J-integral method, whereas a displacement method is used to evaluate the SIF by using either one or two displacement jumps located along the crack path in the second and third approaches. The displacement jump method is rather classical for mono-materials, but has to our knowledge not been used up to now for a bi-material. Hence, use of displacement jump for characterizing bi-material cracks constitutes the main contribution of the present study. Several benchmark tests including parametric studies are performed to show the effectiveness of these computational methodologies for SIF considering static and fatigue problems of bi-material structures. It is found that results based on the displacement jump methods are in a very good agreement with those of exact solutions, such as for the J-integral method, but with a larger domain of applicability and a better numerical efficiency (less time consuming and less spurious boundary effect).     

薄板的多变量小波有限元分析

基于区间B样条小波和广义变分原理,提出了多变量小波有限元法,构造了一种新的薄板多变量小波有限单元.由广义变分原理推导结构的多变量有限元列式,区间B样条小波尺度函数作为插值函数构造的多变量小波有限元法中,广义应力和应变被作为独立变量进行插值,避免了传统方法中应力应变求解的微分运算,减小了计算误差.区间B样条小波良好的数值...     

偶应力问题的杂交／混合元分析

将弹性力学中Hellinger—Reissner交分原理推广到偶应力理论中，并以罚函数的形式引入其约束条件，提出了一种有效的杂交／混合单元。文中分别分析了带中心小孔平板在轴向均匀加载时的应力集中情况，以及含中问裂纹的无限平板单轴拉伸时的位移场和应力场。算例表明，该单元计算效率高，精度好，即使在材料本征长度很小时，仍然能够得到相当理想的结果。     

Theoretical analysis of a class of mixed,C0 continuity formulations for general dipolar Gradient Elasticity boundary value problems

Mixed weak formulations, with two or three main (tensor) variables, are stated and theoretically analyzed for general multi-dimensional dipolar Gradient Elasticity (biharmonic) boundary value problems. The general structure of constitutive equations is considered (with and without coupling terms). The mixed formulations are based on various generalizations of the so-called Ciarlet–Raviart technique. Hence, C⁰ continuity conforming basis functions may be employed in the finite element approximations (or even, C⁻¹ basis functions for the Cauchy stress variable). All the complicated boundary conditions, especially in the multi-dimensional scenario, are naturally considered. The main variables are the displacement vector, the double stress tensor and the Cauchy stress tensor. The latter variable may be eliminated in some of the formulations, depending on the structure of the constitutive equations. The standard continuous and discrete Babuška–Brezzi inf–sup conditions for the constraint equation, as well as, solution uniqueness for both the continuous statements and discrete approximations, are established in all cases. For the purpose of completeness, two one-dimensional mixed formulations are also analyzed. The respective constitutive equations possess general structure (with coupling terms). For the 1-D formulations, all the inf–sup conditions are satisfied, for both the continuous and discrete statements (assuming proper selection of the polynomial spaces for the main variables). Hence, the general Babuška–Brezzi theory results in quasi-optimality and stability. For multi-dimensional problems, the difficulty of deducing the inf–sup condition on the kernel is examined. Certain aspects of methodologies employed to theoretically by-pass this problem, are also discussed.     

An exact element method for bending of nonhomogeneous thin plates

In this paper, based on the step reduction method, a new method, the exact element method for constructing finite element, is presented. Since the new method doesn't need the variational principle, it can be applied to solve non-positive and positive definite partial differential equations with arbitrary variable coefficient. By this method, a triangle noncompatible element with 6 degrees of freedom is derived to solve the bending of nonhomogeneous plate. The convergence of displacements and stress resultants which have satisfactory numerical precision is proved. Numerical examples are given at the end of this paper, which indicate satisfactory results of stress resultants and displacements can be obtained by the present method.     

压电材料平面裂纹尖端场的杂交应力有限元分析

基于复势理论和杂交变分原理建立了一种适用于力电耦合分析的杂交应力有限元模 型. 给出了建立刚度矩阵的主要公式和推导过程，单元内的位移场和应力场采用满足平 衡方程的复变函数级数解，假设的复变函数级数解事先精确满足裂纹的无应力和电位移法向 分量为零的条件，单元外边界的位移场假设按抛物线变化, 单元的刚度矩阵采用Gauss积分的方法得出. 通过对力电耦合裂尖场的数值计算验证了程序 的正确性和单元的有效性，同时也用所得结果校验了理论解.     

Mixed hybrid penalty finite element method and its application

The penalty and hybrid methods are being much used in dealing with the general incompatible element, With the penalty method convergence can always be assured, but comparatively speaking its accuracy is lower, and the condition number and sparsity are not so good. With the hybrid method, convergence can be assured only when the rank condition is satisfied. So the construction of the element is extremely limited. This paper presents the mixed hybrid penalty element method, which combines the two methods together. And it is proved theoretically that this new method is convergent, and it has the same accuracy, condition number and sparsity as the compatible element. That is to say, they are optimal to each other.Finally, a new triangle element for plate bending with nine freedom degrees is constructed with this method (three degreesof freedom are given on each corner——one displacement and tworotations), the calculating formula of the element stiffness matrix is almost the same as that of the old triangle element for plate bending with nine degrees of freedom But it is converged to true solution with arbitrary irregrlar triangle subdivision. If the true solution u∈H³ with this method the linear and quadratic rates of convergence are obtianed for three bending moments and for the displacement and two rotations respectively.     

An exact element method for plane problem

In this paper, based on the step reduction method^[1] and exact analytic method^[2] anew method-exact element method for constructing finite element, is presented. Since the new method doesn ’t need the variational principle, it can be applied to solve non-positive and positive definite partial differential equations with arbitrary variable coefficient. By this method, a quadrilateral noncompatible element with 8 degrees of freedom is derived for the solution of plane problem. Since Jacobi ’s transformation is not applied, the present element may degenerate into a triangle element. It is convenient to use the element in engineering. In this paper, the convergence is proved. Numerical examples are given at the endof this paper, which indicate satisfactory results of stress and displacements can be obtained and have higher numerical precision in nodes.     

A hybrid/mixed model finite element analysis for eigenvalue problem of moderately thick plates

The buckling and free vibration problems of moderately thick plate are considered in this paper by using the hybrid/mixed finite element model. A modified Reissner principle which only requires C⁰ continuity is derived. No lockling phenomenon is observed. Linear interpolation is used for all independent unknown function. Finally a displacement generalized eigenvalue equation is obtained, in which the stiffness matrix is symmetric and positively definite. The calculated results show that the method proposed is simple, reliable and satisfactory.     

直接有限元法求解广义磁热弹二维旋转问题

为了验证直接有限元法求解广义磁热弹耦合旋转问题的有效性及准确性,该文基于Lord和Shulman(L-S)广义热弹性理论,采用直接有限元方法,求解了置于磁场中的旋转半无限大体受热冲击作用的动态响应问题.文中给出了L-S型广义磁热弹耦合旋转问题的控制方程,建立了L-S型广义磁热弹旋转问题的虚位移原理,推导得到了相应的有限...     

基面力概念在几何非线性余能有限元中的应用

以基面力为基本未知量描述一个弹性系统的应力状态并表征单元的余能,将大变形的余能分解为变形余能部分和转动余能部分,采用Lagrange乘子法放松单元的平衡方程,利用已有的弹性大变形余能原理建立了一种几何非线性显式有限元模型,编制了相应的几何非线性余能原理有限元程序. 数值算例表明:该方法具有较好的收敛性和计算精度,可进行大载荷步的大位移、大转动计算.