An unsymmetric 8-node plane element immune to mesh distortion for linear isotropic hardening material

• Main Authors: Chen, Xiaotian, Chen, Wei, Xu, Jiangping, Tu, Wenbin, Rajendran, Sellakkutti, Lu, Jinzhong
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2022
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Large Deformation; Material Nonlinearity
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/157007
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

An 8-node quadrilateral plane element US-QUAD8 is developed for linear isotropic hardening material in the framework of updated Lagrangian unsymmetric finite formulation where (Formula presented.) matrix is constructed by classical shape function, and (Formula presented.) matrix by the higher-order...