Modification of the 8-node serendipity element

DOI10.1016/S0045-7825(99)00031-6zbMath0979.74067MaRDI QIDQ1976174

Hidehiro Fujio, Masayuki Okabe, Fumio Kikuchi

Publication date: 18 January 2001

Published in: Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

finite element analysisshape functionsnode degeneration technique6-node quadratic triangle8-node serendipity quadrilateral elementbilinear isoparametric shapeCartesian quadratic polynomial spaceisoparametric quadratic space

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30)

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