A strain smoothing formulation for NURBS (non-uniform rational B-splines) based isogeometric finite element analysis is presented. This approach is formulated within the framework of assumed strain methods and strain smoothing operations. The strain smoothing is defined through strain averaging in the element sub-domains which are subsequently used for numerical integration of the Galerkin weak form. This formulation satisfies the orthogonality condition of the assumed strain methods. Meanwhile the present formulation totally avoids the gradient computation of the rational NURBS basis functions in the formulation of stiffness matrix. A transformation method is employed to accurately enforce the displacement boundary conditions. Numerical results demonstrate that the present formation gives very satisfactory solution accuracy simultaneously with improved computational efficiency.
This paper proposes a geometrically nonlinear total Lagrangian Galerkin meshfree formulation based on the stabilized conforming nodal integration for efficient analysis of shear deformable beam.The present nonlinear analysis encompasses the fully geometric nonlinearities due to large deflection,large deformation as well as finite rotation.The incremental equilibrium equation is obtained by the consistent linearization of the nonlinear variational equation.The Lagrangian meshfree shape function is utilized to discretize the variational equation.Subsequently to resolve the shear and membrane locking issues and accelerate the computation,the method of stabilized conforming nodal integration is systematically implemented through the Lagrangian gradient smoothing operation.Numerical results reveal that the present formulation is very effective.
Dongdong Wang,and Yue Sun Department of Civil Engineering,Xiamen University,Xiamen 361005,China
