An Imbricate Finite Element Method (I-FEM) using full, reduced, and smoothed integration

作者：Cazes Fabien; Meschke Guenther^*

来源：Computational Mechanics, 2013, 52(5): 993-1021.

DOI：10.1007/s00466-013-0860-9

• Solid mechanics
• Structures
• Finite elements
• Smoothed FEM

A method to design finite elements that imbricate with each other while being assembled, denoted as imbricate finite element method, is proposed to improve the smoothness and the accuracy of the approximation based upon low order elements. Although these imbricate elements rely on triangular meshes, the approximation stems from the shape functions of bilinear quadrilateral elements. These elements satisfy the standard requirements of the finite element method: continuity, delta function property, and partition of unity. The convergence of the proposed approximation is investigated by means of two numerical benchmark problems comparing three different schemes for the numerical integration including a cell-based smoothed FEM based on a quadratic shape of the elements edges. The method is compared to related existing methods.

• 出版日期2013-11