Development of a “smooth” finite element

• Main Author: Goh, Dickson Di Sheng.
• Other Authors: Sellakkutti Rajendran
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Aeronautical engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/50214
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

A “Smoothed” finite element (SFEM) is developed by introducing modifications to the strain/displacement matrix (otherwise known as the B-matrix) of a 4 node rectangular element. In ANSYS (finite element software), certain smoothing operations are done post priori to reflect better results after solu...