Ebook: Hybrid and Incompatible Finite Element Methods
Author: Theodore H.H. Pian Chang-Chun Wu
- Genre: Physics
- Series: Modern Mechanics and Mathematics
- Year: 2005
- Publisher: Chapman and Hall/CRC
- Edition: 1
- Language: English
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Hybrid and Incompatible Finite Element Methods introduces these advances in the theory and applications of incompatible and multivariable finite element methods. After an overview of the variation formulation of finite element methods in solid mechanics, the authors discuss the fundamental theory and systematically demonstrate the theoretical foundations of incompatible elements and their application to different problems in the theory of elasticity. They also introduce new ideas in the development of hybrid finite elements, study the numerical stability of the hybrid and mixed element, and establish the theory of zero energy deformation modes. The final chapters, explore applications to fracture problems, present a bound analysis for fracture parameters, and demonstrate an implementation of a finite element analysis program.