A stabilization technique to avoid hourglassing in finite elasticity

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 79-109

  Reese, S ^a   Wriggers, P ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Distorted meshes; Enhanced strain method; Hourglass stabilization; One Gauss point integration; Plane strain state; Smart elements

Indexed keywords

DEFORMATION; INTEGRATION; INTELLIGENT MATERIALS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STABILIZATION; STRAIN;

DISTORTED MESHES; HOURGLASS STABILIZATION; ONE GAUSS POINT INTEGRATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0034187903     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(20000510)48:1<79::AID-NME869>3.0.CO;2-D     Document Type: Article

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