A review on membrane finite elements with drilling degree of freedom

D Boutagouga - Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 2021 - Springer
Membrane finite elements have gained increasing importance since the early years of the
finite elements method due to their convenience to a wide range of plane and 3D shell …

A 4-node hybrid stress-function (HS-F) plane element with drilling degrees of freedom less sensitive to severe mesh distortions

S Cen, MJ Zhou, XR Fu - Computers & Structures, 2011 - Elsevier
A simple but robust 4-node hybrid stress-function (HS-F) membrane element with drilling
degrees of freedom is developed based on the principle of minimum complementary energy …

Airy stress function for proposed thermoelastic triangular elements

A Karimi Pour, E Noroozinejad Farsangi - Journal of Engineering …, 2023 - Springer
This study aims to improve the performance of thermoelastic triangular elements. New
triangular elements are proposed with different degrees of freedom. Plane stress models are …

A mixed isostatic 16 dof quadrilateral membrane element with drilling rotations, based on Airy stresses

A Madeo, R Casciaro, G Zagari, R Zinno… - Finite Elements in …, 2014 - Elsevier
A mixed 8-nodes quadrilateral 16 dof membrane finite element, called HQ8-13 β, is
proposed. It is developed within the Hellinger–Reissner variational framework: the assumed …

A novel high-performance mixed membrane finite element for the analysis of inelastic structures

NA Nodargi, P Bisegna - Computers & Structures, 2017 - Elsevier
A novel high-performance eight-node quadrilateral mixed finite element is presented. Its
formulation is based on a Hu-Washizu type functional, suitable to the treatment of material …

Three stress-based triangular elements

M Rezaiee-Pajand, A Karimipour - Engineering with Computers, 2020 - Springer
To obtain proper stresses, three new triangular elements are formulated in this study. First, a
complementary energy functional is used within an element for the analysis of plane …

A new enhanced assumed strain quadrilateral membrane element with drilling degree of freedom and modified shape functions

D Boutagouga - International Journal for Numerical Methods in …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A new four‐node quadrilateral membrane finite element with drilling rotational degree of
freedom based on the enhanced assumed strain formulation is presented. A simple …

Bouc-Wen type hysteretic plane stress element

SP Triantafyllou, VK Koumousis - Journal of Engineering …, 2012 - ascelibrary.org
In this work, a plane-stress element is proposed for the elastoplastic dynamic analysis of two-
dimensional structures exhibiting hysteretic behavior. The constant-strain triangular element …

A mixed edge-based smoothed finite element method (MES-FEM) for elasticity

L Leonetti, G Garcea, H Nguyen-Xuan - Computers & Structures, 2016 - Elsevier
We propose a mixed smoothed finite element model for plane elasticity. Within each
triangular element the displacement field is described by a revised Allman interpolation …

A mixed node-based smoothed finite element method (MNS-FEM) for elasticity

L Leonetti, G Garcea, H Nguyen-Xuan - Engineering with Computers, 2017 - Springer
In this paper, an alternative formulation of the NS-FEM based on an assumed stress field is
presented to include drilling rotations. Within each triangular element the displacement field …