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A Study on the Criterion for Membrane/Shell Mixed Element and Application to the Rigid-Plastic/Elastic-Plastic Finite Element Analysis (박막/쉘 혼합요소의 판별조건과 강소성/탄소성 유한요소해석 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Jung, Dong-Won;Yang, Kyoung-Boo
    • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Technology
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    • v.13 no.2 s.32
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    • pp.1-10
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    • 1999
  • This study is concerned with the application of new criterion for membrane/shell mixed element in the rigid-plastic finite element analysis and elastic-plastic finite element analysis. The membrane/shell mixed element can be selctively adapted to the pure stretching condition by using membrane or a shell element in the bending effect areas. Thus, membrane/shell mixed element requires a efficient criterion for a distinction between membrane and shell element. In the present study introduce the criterion using the angle of between two element and confirm a generality of criterion from appling the theory to a rigid-plastic and elastic-plastic problems.

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Energy release rate for kinking crack using mixed finite element

  • Salah, Bouziane;Hamoudi, Bouzerd;Noureddine, Boulares;Mohamed, Guenfoud
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.50 no.5
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    • pp.665-677
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    • 2014
  • A numerical method, using a special mixed finite element associated with the virtual crack extension technique, has been developed to evaluate the energy release rate for kinking cracks. The element is two dimensional 7-node mixed finite element with 5 displacement nodes and 2 stress nodes. The mixed finite element ensures the continuity of stress and displacement vectors on the coherent part and the free edge effect. This element has been formulated starting from a parent element in a natural plane with the aim to model different types of cracks with various orientations. Example problems with kinking cracks in a homogeneous material and bimaterial are presented to assess the computational accuracies.

A POSTERIORI L(L2)-ERROR ESTIMATES OF SEMIDISCRETE MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR HYPERBOLIC OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEMS

  • Hou, Tianliang
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.50 no.1
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    • pp.321-341
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we discuss the a posteriori error estimates of the semidiscrete mixed finite element methods for quadratic optimal control problems governed by linear hyperbolic equations. The state and the co-state are discretized by the order $k$ Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element spaces and the control is approximated by piecewise polynomials of order $k(k{\geq}0)$. Using mixed elliptic reconstruction method, a posterior $L^{\infty}(L^2)$-error estimates for both the state and the control approximation are derived. Such estimates, which are apparently not available in the literature, are an important step towards developing reliable adaptive mixed finite element approximation schemes for the control problem.

An efficient partial mixed finite element model for static and free vibration analyses of FGM plates rested on two-parameter elastic foundations

  • Lezgy-Nazargah, M.;Meshkani, Z.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.66 no.5
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    • pp.665-676
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    • 2018
  • In this study, a four-node quadrilateral partial mixed plate element with low degrees of freedom (dofs) is developed for static and free vibration analysis of functionally graded material (FGM) plates rested on Winkler-Pasternak elastic foundations. The formulation of the presented finite element model is based on a parametrized mixed variational principle which is developed recently by the first author. The presented finite element model considers the effects of shear deformations and normal flexibility of the FGM plates without using any shear correction factor. It also fulfills the boundary conditions of the transverse shear and normal stresses on the top and bottom surfaces of the plate. Beside these capabilities, the number of unknown field variables of the plate is only six. The presented partial mixed finite element model has been validated through comparison with the results of the three-dimensional (3D) theory of elasticity and the results obtained from the classical and high-order plate theories available in the open literature.

MIXED FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATION OF A STEFAN PROBLEM

  • Shin, Jun-Yong
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.11 no.1_2
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    • pp.357-364
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    • 2003
  • A fully discrete $H^1-mixed$ finite element approximation for the single-phase Stefan problem is introduced and the unique existence of the approximation is established. And some numerical experiments are given.

ERROR ESTIMATES OF MIXED FINITE ELEMENT APPROXIMATIONS FOR A CLASS OF FOURTH ORDER ELLIPTIC CONTROL PROBLEMS

  • Hou, Tianliang
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.50 no.4
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    • pp.1127-1144
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    • 2013
  • In this paper, we consider the error estimates of the numerical solutions of a class of fourth order linear-quadratic elliptic optimal control problems by using mixed finite element methods. The state and co-state are approximated by the order $k$ Raviart-Thomas mixed finite element spaces and the control variable is approximated by piecewise polynomials of order $k(k{\geq}1)$. $L^2$ and $L^{\infty}$-error estimates are derived for both the control and the state approximations. These results are seemed to be new in the literature of the mixed finite element methods for fourth order elliptic control problems.

SUPERCONVERGENCE OF CRANK-NICOLSON MIXED FINITE ELEMENT SOLUTION OF PARABOLIC PROBLEMS

  • Kwon, Dae Sung;Park, Eun-Jae
    • Korean Journal of Mathematics
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.139-148
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    • 2005
  • In this paper we extend the mixed finite element method and its $L_2$-error estimate for postprocessed solutions by using Crank-Nicolson time-discretization method. Global $O(h^2+({\Delta}t)^2)$-superconvergence for the lowest order Raviart-Thomas element ($Q_0-Q_{1,0}{\times}Q_{0,1}$) are obtained. Numerical examples are presented to confirm superconvergence phenomena.

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Random Vibration Analysis of Thick Composite Laminated Plate Using Mixed Finite Element Model (1) (혼합유한요소모델을 이용한 두꺼운 복합적층판의 불규칙 진동해석(1)-이론적 고찰)

  • Seok, Keun-Yung;Kang, Joo-Won
    • 한국공간정보시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2004.05a
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    • pp.190-196
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    • 2004
  • Thick composite laminated plates is considered in 3D finite-element. To consider continuity of transverse stresses and displacement field, mixed finite-element has been developed by using layerwise theory and the minimum potential energy principle. Mixed finite-element has been enforced through the thick direction, Z, of a laminated plate by considering six degree-of-freedoms per node. Six degree-of-freedoms are three displacement components in the coordinate axes directions and three transverse stress components ${\sigma}_z,\;{\tau}_{xz},\;{\tau}_{yz}$. The model maintain the fundamental elasticity relations that are stress-strain relation and displacement-strain relation, because the transverse stress components invoked as nodal degrees of freedom by using the fundamental elasticity relationship between th components of stress and displacement. Random vibration analysis of the model is performed by computing consistent mass matrix and computing covariance in frequency domain technique.

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A CHARACTERISTICS-MIXED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR BURGERS' EQUATION

  • Chen, Huanzhen;Jiang, Ziwen
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.15 no.1_2
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    • pp.29-51
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    • 2004
  • In this paper, we propose a new mixed finite element method, called the characteristics-mixed method, for approximating the solution to Burgers' equation. This method is based upon a space-time variational form of Burgers' equation. The hyperbolic part of the equation is approximated along the characteristics in time and the diffusion part is approximated by a mixed finite element method of lowest order. The scheme is locally conservative since fluid is transported along the approximate characteristics on the discrete level and the test function can be piecewise constant. Our analysis show the new method approximate the scalar unknown and the vector flux optimally and simultaneously. We also show this scheme has much smaller time-truncation errors than those of standard methods. Numerical example is presented to show that the new scheme is easily implemented, shocks and boundary layers are handled with almost no oscillations. One of the contributions of the paper is to show how the optimal error estimates in $L^2(\Omega)$ are obtained which are much more difficult than in the standard finite element methods. These results seem to be new in the literature of finite element methods.

A Finite Element Analysis for Densification Behavior of Mixed Metal Powder under Cold Compaction (냉간압축하에서 혼합 금속분말의 치밀화 거동에 관한 유한요소해석)

  • Cho, Jang-Hyug;Cho, Jin-Ho;Kim, Ki-Tae
    • Proceedings of the KSME Conference
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    • 2000.04a
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    • pp.393-398
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    • 2000
  • Densification behavior of mixed copper and tool steel powder under cold compaction was investigated. By mixing the yield functions originally proposed by Fleck-Gurson for pure powder, a new mixed yield functions In terms of volume fractions and contact numbers of Cu powder were employed in the constitutive models. The constitutive equations were implemented into a finite element program (ABAQUS) to compare with experimental data. and with calculated results from the model of Kim et at. for densification of mixed powder under cold isostatic pressing and cold die compaction. Finite element calculations by using the yield functions mixed by contact numbers of Cu powder agreed better with experimental data than those by volume fractions of Cu powder.

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