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Mathematical and computational aspects of the enhanced strain finite element method
Bibliography: pages 102-107.
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| author | Arunakirinathar, Kanagaratnam |
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| spelling | oai:open.uct.ac.za:11427/15964 Mathematical and computational aspects of the enhanced strain finite element method Arunakirinathar, Kanagaratnam Reddy, B Daya Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Bibliography: pages 102-107. This thesis deals with further investigations of the enhanced strain finite element method, with particular attention given to the analysis of the method for isoparametric elements. It is shown that the results established earlier by B D Reddy and J C Simo for affine-equivalent meshes carry over to the case of isoparameric elements. That is, the method is stable and convergent provided that a set of three conditions are met, and convergence is at the same rate as in the standard method. The three conditions differ in some respects, though, from their counterparts for the affine case. A procedure for recovering the stress is shown to lead to an approximate stress which converges at the optimal rate to the actual stress. The concept of the equivalent parallelogram associated with a quadrilateral is introduced. The quadrilateral may be regarded as a perturbation of this parallelogram, which is most conveniently described by making use of properties of the isoparametric map which defines the quadrilateral. The equivalent parallelogram generates a natural means of defining a regular family of quadrilaterals; this definition is used together with other properties to obtain in a relatively simple manner estimates, in appropriate seminorms or norms, of the isoparametric map and it's Jacobian, for use in the determination of finite element interpolation error estimates, with regard to computations, a new basis for enhanced strains is introduced, and various examples have been tested. The results obtained are compared with those obtained using other bases, and with those found from an assumed stress approach. Favourable comparisons are obtained in most cases, with the present basis exhibiting an improvement over existing bases. Convergence of the finite element results are verified; it is observed numerically that the improvement of results due to enhancement is as a result of a smaller constant appearing in the error estimates. 2015-12-28T06:03:33Z 2015-12-28T06:03:33Z 1995 Doctoral Thesis Doctoral PhD http://hdl.handle.net/11427/15964 eng application/pdf Department of Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Faculty of Science University of Cape Town |
| spellingShingle | Mathematics and Applied Mathematics Arunakirinathar, Kanagaratnam Mathematical and computational aspects of the enhanced strain finite element method |
| thesis_degree_str | Doctoral |
| title | Mathematical and computational aspects of the enhanced strain finite element method |
| title_full | Mathematical and computational aspects of the enhanced strain finite element method |
| title_fullStr | Mathematical and computational aspects of the enhanced strain finite element method |
| title_full_unstemmed | Mathematical and computational aspects of the enhanced strain finite element method |
| title_short | Mathematical and computational aspects of the enhanced strain finite element method |
| title_sort | mathematical and computational aspects of the enhanced strain finite element method |
| topic | Mathematics and Applied Mathematics |
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