Large-deformation triangular and tetrahedral element formulations for unstructured meshes

DOI10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00336-9zbMath0980.74056OpenAlexW2094259322MaRDI QIDQ1579763

Gordon R. Johnson, Stephen Beissel

Publication date: 4 March 2002

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/s0045-7825(99)00336-9

zbMATH Keywords

deformation gradientunstructured meshesvolumetric lockingtetrahedral elementsmixed formulationtriangular elementelement distortionvolumetric straincritical timestepirreducible formulation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Large-strain, rate-independent theories of plasticity (including nonlinear plasticity) (74C15)

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