Smoothed finite element method for two-dimensional elasto-plasticity

Stéphane Pierre Alain Bordascorres, Hung Nguyen-Dang, Quyen Phan-Phuong, Hung Nguyen-Xuan, Sundararajan Natarajan, Marc Duflot
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  • Stéphane Pierre Alain Bordascorres University of Glasgow, G12 8LT, Scotland, UK.
  • Hung Nguyen-Dang Institute de Mecanique et Genie Civil, Liege, Belgique
  • Quyen Phan-Phuong University of Technology HCM, Vietnam
  • Hung Nguyen-Xuan University of Natural Sciences -VNU-HCM, Vietnam
  • Sundararajan Natarajan University of Glasgow, G12 8LT, Scotland, UK.
  • Marc Duflot 5Centre of excellence in aeronautical research (CENAERO), Rue des Frères Wright 29 B-6041 Gosselies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15625/0866-7136/31/3-4/5655

Abstract

This communication shows how the smoothed finite element method (SFEM) very recently proposed by G. R. Liu [14] can be extended to elasto-plasticity. The SFEM results are in excellent agreement with the finite element (FEM) and analytical results. For the examples treated, the method is quite insensitive to mesh distortion and volumetric locking. Moreover, the SFEM yields more compliant load-displacement curves compared to the standard, displacement based FE method, as expected from the theoretical developments recently published in [4], [3] and [6].

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Published

01-12-2009

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Research Article