On alternative hybrid stress 2d and 3d elements
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- Published by Emerald Publishing in Engineering Computations
- Vol. 11 (1) , 49-68
- https://doi.org/10.1108/02644409410799155
Abstract
Based on the recent advances of hybrid stress finite elements, a series of alternative stress assumptions for these elements are investigated. Several new element models are proposed by using different concepts for the stress interpolation. Under a unified formulation presented in this paper for Hellinger—Reissner principle based hybrid stress element models, the element series 5β‐family for plane stress and 18β‐family for three‐dimensional problems are discussed. The extra incompatible displacements sometimes also added are not introduced in this unified formulation. A number of popular benchmark elastic problems are examined for both two element families. In each family, the element model presented in this paper using normalized transformed higher order stress trials usually gives better predictions than the others.Keywords
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