Uniform convergence and a posteriori error estimation for assumed stress hybrid finite element methods

DOI10.1016/J.CMA.2011.03.018zbMATH Open1230.74205arXiv1101.1213OpenAlexW2157484206MaRDI QIDQ660226FDOQ660226

Authors: Guozhu Yu, Xiaoping Xie, C. Carstensen 

Publication date: 1 February 2012

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

Abstract: Assumed stress hybrid methods are known to improve the performance of standard displacement-based finite elements and are widely used in computational mechanics. The methods are based on the Hellinger-Reissner variational principle for the displacement and stress variables. This work analyzes two existing 4-node hybrid stress quadrilateral elements due to Pian and Sumihara [Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng, 1984] and due to Xie and Zhou [Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng, 2004], which behave robustly in numerical benchmark tests. For the finite elements, the isoparametric bilinear interpolation is used for the displacement approximation, while different piecewise-independent 5-parameter modes are employed for the stress approximation. We show that the two schemes are free from Poisson-locking, in the sense that the error bound in the a priori estimate is independent of the relevant Lame constant $lambda$. We also establish the equivalence of the methods to two assumed enhanced strain schemes. Finally, we derive reliable and efficient residual-based a posteriori error estimators for the stress in $L^2$-norm and the displacement in $H^1$-norm, and verify the theoretical results by some numerical experiments.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1101.1213

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zbMATH Keywords

finite elementA posteriori estimatorassumed stress hybrid methodhellingerPoisson-lockingReissner principle

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Error bounds for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N15) Finite element, Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin methods for boundary value problems involving PDEs (65N30) Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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