Intra-ply shear locking results in unrealistic fibre stresses and spurious wrinkling in composite forming simulations. Three remedies are investigated: aligning the mesh, applying reduced integration and using multi-field elements. The bias extension simulation is used to test several triangular and quadrilateral elements on their capability to avoid locking. Their performance under large defor...

This paper deals with the convergence properties of the nonconforming quadrilateral Wilson element for a class of nonlinear parabolic problems in two space dimensions. Optimal H and L2 error estimates for the continuous time Galerkin approximations are derived. It is also shown for rectangular meshes that the gradient of the Wilson element solution possesses superconvergence, and that the Lx er...

This paper will describe recent work on the paving algorithm. The paving algorithm is an advancing front meshing method for generating quadrilateral elements on a general three dimensional surface. The work presented in this paper will describe the algorithmic changes to shift the paver from a row by row advancing front to an element by element method. This method modifies the paver to perform ...

This paper deals with the convergence properties of the nonconforming quadrilateral Wilson element for a class of nonlinear parabolic problems in two space dimensions. Optimal H and L2 error estimates for the continuous time Galerkin approximations are derived. It is also shown for rectangular meshes that the gradient of the Wilson element solution possesses superconvergence, and that the Lx er...

A new method with a simple algorithm was developed to accurately measure Poisson's ratio of soft materials such as polyvinyl alcohol hydrogel (PVA-H) with a custom experimental apparatus consisting of a tension device, a micro X-Y stage, an optical microscope, and a charge-coupled device camera. In the proposed method, the initial positions of the four vertices of an arbitrarily selected quadri...

Based on classical plate theory, standard and spectral finite element methods are extended for vibration and dynamic stability of axially moving thin plates subjected to in-plane forces. The formulation of the standard method earned through Hamilton’s principle is independent of element type. But for solving numerical examples, an isoparametric quadrilateral element is developed using Lagrange ...

Based on classical plate theory, standard and spectral finite element methods are extended for vibration and dynamic stability of axially moving thin plates subjected to in-plane forces. The formulation of the standard method earned through Hamilton’s principle is independent of element type. But for solving numerical examples, an isoparametric quadrilateral element is developed using Lagrange ...

In this paper, two new quadrilateral elements are formulated to solve plane problems. Low sensitivity to geometric distortion, no parasitic shear error, rotational invariance, and satisfying the Felippa pure bending test are characteristics of these suggested elements. One proposed element is formulated by establishing equilibrium equations for the second-order strain field. The other suggested...