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Elimination of spourious kinematic modes in hybrid equilibrium element
2011
It is widely recognized that displacement based elements produce solution with poor stress fields, which do not satisfy equilibrium equations. In several fields of computational mechanics, such as cohesive crack propagation and cohesive delamination, stress fields drive all the nonlinear phenomena and very fine meshes have to be employed in order to avoid numerical instabilities. Inter-element equilibrium condition is generally not satisfied and the stress field can abruptly change between adjacent elements, producing numerical instabilities in non linear analysis. Finite element formulation based on stress fields satisfying locally equilibrium condition are known in literature since 1964 b…
Hybrid equilibrium elements for accurate stress analysis
2010
It is widely recognized that displacement elements produce poor stress fields, which do not satisfy strong equilibrium conditions. In several fields of computational mechanics, such as cohesive crack propagation and cohesive delamination, stress fields drive all the nonlinear phenomena and very fine meshes have to be employed in order to avoid numerical instabilities. In fact, inter-element equilibrium condition is generally not satisfied and stress fields can abruptly change between adjacent elements, producing strong inconvenient in crack propagation analysis. In the present paper hybrid stress elements are proposed as alternative to standard finite element for linear and non linear analy…