A group of isoparametric elements suitable for St. Venant's torsion of a bar with cracks

✍ Scribed by Fan Xiuchang; Wu Yueming

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 399 KB
• Volume: 17
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0253-4827
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00189568

✦ Synopsis

In this paper, we shall give a group of new isoparametric elements suitable for St.

Venant's torsion of a bar with vertical cracks. These elements are eight-point isoparametric element, quarter eight-point isoparametric element and eight-point isoparametric transition element. Among these elements, the second and the third elements possess the singularity of order r-t/l at crack tip. Using these elements, we have completed the calculations of St, Venant's torsion for a cylinder with a radial vertical crack. The calculated results show that the isoparametric elements given by this paper have ideal accuracy, good convergence, high speed of convergence, low freedom and little computational time, and so the)' can be widely applied to practice.