Jog, CS (2010) Improved hybrid elements for structural analysis. In: Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures, 5 (3). pp. 507-528.
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Hybrid elements, which are based on a two-field variational formulation with the displacements and stresses interpolated separately, are known to deliver very high accuracy, and to alleviate to a large extent problems of locking that plague standard displacement-based formulations. The choice of the stress interpolation functions is of course critical in ensuring the high accuracy and robustness of the method. Generally, an attempt is made to keep the stress interpolation to the minimum number of terms that will ensure that the stiffness matrix has no spurious zero-energy modes, since it is known that the stiffness increases with the increase in the number of terms. Although using such a strategy of keeping the number of interpolation terms to a minimum works very well in static problems, it results either in instabilities or fails to converge in transient problems. This is because choosing the stress interpolation functions merely on the basis of removing spurious energy modes can violate some basic principles that interpolation functions should obey. In this work, we address the issue of choosing the interpolation functions based on such basic principles of interpolation theory and mechanics. Although this procedure results in the use of more number of terms than the minimum (and hence in slightly increased stiffness) in many elements, we show that the performance continues to be far superior to displacement-based formulations, and, more importantly, that it also results in considerably increased robustness.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Publication: | Journal of Mechanics of Materials and Structures |
| Publisher: | Mathematical Sciences Publishers |
| Additional Information: | Copyright of this article belongs to Mathematical Sciences Publishers. |
| Keywords: | hybrid finite elements; linear/nonlinear; static/transient; structural analysis |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Mechanical Sciences > Mechanical Engineering |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Nov 2010 10:21 |
| Last Modified: | 13 Nov 2010 10:21 |
| URI: | http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/33662 |
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