LINEAR AND GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR ANALYSIS WITH 4-NODE PLANE QUASI-CONFORMING ELEMENT WITH INTERNAL PARAMETERS

(整期优先)网络出版时间:2015-06-16
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Alinear4-nodequadrilateralquasi-conformingplaneelementwithinternalparametersisproposed.Theelementpreservesadvantagesofthequasi-conformingtechnique,includinganexplicitstiffnessmatrix,whichcanbeappliedtononlinearproblems.Theweakpatchtestguaranteestheconvergenceoftheelement.ThenthelinearelementisextendedtothegeometricallynonlinearanalysisintheframeworkofTotalLagrangian(TL)formulation.Thenumericaltestsindicatethatthepresentelementisaccurateandinsensitivetomeshdistortion.