An iterative improvement for non-conforming bending elements

✍ Scribed by M. A. Crisfield

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1975
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 361 KB
• Volume: 9
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0029-5981
• DOI: 10.1002/nme.1620090311

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

A method is described whereby the formulation for non‐conforming bending elements includes the work dissipated across the inter‐element boundaries. For the examples considered, this correction is shown to lead to a significant improvement in accuracy at little extra cost. Since the solution procedure is based on an iterative technique, the method would be particularly suitable if applied to non‐linear problems.