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Functionally graded materials have an additional length scale associated to the spatial variation of the material property field which competes with the usual geometrical length scale of the boundary value problem. By considering the length scale of nonhomogeneity, this paper presents the weak patch test (rather than the standard one) of the graded element for nonhomogeneous materials to assess convergence of the finite element method (FEM). Both consistency (as the size of elements approach zero, the FEM approximation represents the exact solution) and stability (spurious mechanisms are avoided) conditions are addressed. The specific graded elements considered here are isoparametric quadrilaterals (e.g. 4, 8 and 9-node) considering two dimensional plane and axisymmetric problems. The finite element approximate solutions are compared with exact solutions for nonhomogeneous materials

The weak patch test for nonhomogeneous materials modeled with graded finite elements