Effects of planar element formulation and numerical integration order on checkerboard material layouts

Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 487-501

  Long, Craig S ^a   Loveday, Philip W ^a   Groenwold, Albert A ^b  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Checkerboard; Drilling degrees of freedom; Homogenization; Reduced integration

Indexed keywords

4-NODE ELEMENT; CHECKERBOARD; DRILLING DEGREES OF FREEDOM; ELEMENT FORMULATION; ELEMENT LEVEL; GAUSS QUADRATURE RULES; HOMOGENIZATION; INTEGRATION SCHEME; MATERIAL LAYOUT; NUMERICAL INTEGRATIONS; PLANAR FINITE ELEMENTS; QUADRATIC ELEMENT; REDUCED INTEGRATION; SUPPRESS SPURIOUS; TOPOLOGY OPTIMIZATION; ZERO ENERGY MODES;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MECHANICS; STIFFNESS; STRUCTURAL OPTIMIZATION; WELL DRILLING;

INTEGRATION;

EID: 70350212598     PISSN: 1615147X     EISSN: 16151488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00158-008-0345-1     Document Type: Article

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