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Unified and mixed formulation of the 4‐node quadrilateral elements by assumed strain method: Application to thermomechanical problems
Author(s) -
Zhu Y. Y.,
Cescotto S.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
international journal for numerical methods in engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.421
H-Index - 168
eISSN - 1097-0207
pISSN - 0029-5981
DOI - 10.1002/nme.1620380411
Subject(s) - quadrilateral , constitutive equation , isotropy , hourglass , finite element method , mathematical analysis , mathematics , structural engineering , materials science , engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , astronomy
In this paper, a class of ‘assumed strain’ mixed finite element methods based on the Hu–Washizu variational principle is presented. Special care is taken to avoid hourglass modes and shear locking as well as volumetric locking. An unified framework for the 4‐node quadrilateral solid and thermal as well as thermomechanical coupling elements with uniform reduced integration (URI) and selective numerical integration (SI) schemes is developed. The approach is simply implemented by a small change of the standard technique and is applicable to arbitrary non‐linear constitutive laws including isotropic and anisotropic material behaviours. The implementation of the proposed SI elements is straightforward, while the development of the proposed URI elements requires ‘anti‐hourglass stresses’ which are evaluated by classical constitutive equations. Several numerical examples are given to demonstrate the performance of the suggested formulation, including static/dynamic mechanical problems, heat conduction and thermomechanical problems.