FINITE ELEMENT METHODS IN ENGINEERING Pinhas Z. Bar-Yoseph Computational Mechanics Lab. Mechanical Engineering, Technion Winter Semester Tutorial # 4 Copyright by PZ Bar-Yoseph ©
Finite Element mesh- 1 quadratic element Quadratic Lagrangian element
Imposing B.C.’s
Postprocessing
Finite element mesh- 2 quadratic elements
The higher the element order the higher is the bandwidth How the problem size can be significantly reduced?
Static condensation Given a higher order element:
At this point, element matrix assembly is proceeded as if the element is a linear element:
Finite Element mesh- 2 cubic elements
Higher order Lagrangian elements Lagrange polynomials:
cubic element
Finite Element mesh- 2 cubic elements