Average strain quadrilateral elements Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractThis paper describes an approach for implementing quadrilateral finite elements which uses B matrices of average strain when assembling element stiffness matrices. The approach avoids isoparametric transformations, thereby making stiffness matrix assembly and stress calculations more efficient. An example is presented which compares the proposed approach and those based on Gauss quadrature integration.

authors

• Stolle, Dieter

status

• published 

publication date

• August 1992

published in

• Communications in Applied Numerical Methods  Journal

keywords

• Engineering
• Engineering, Multidisciplinary
• HEAT
• Mathematics
• Mathematics, Applied
• Physical Sciences
• Science & Technology
• Technology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/cnm.1630080804

start page

• 505

end page

• 510

volume

• 8

issue

• 8