Ring-On-Ring (ROR) tests have been widely applied to evaluate the biaxial flexural strength of brittle materials. Properly designed geometry specimens and loading configurations are essential for accurate test results. In this paper, stress distribution round glass plates subjected between concentric rings was investigated via finite element analysis. particular, effects ratio ring diameter, ov...

A new low order membrane nite element is presented. The element formulation is based on the variational principle of Hughes and Brezzi employing an independent rotation eld. In the present work nonconforming interpolation is used for the drill rotation eld. Both triangular and quadrilateral elements are considered. Combined with the Reissner-Mindlin plate bending element of O~ nate, Zarate and ...

It is well known that the variations of the element size have to be controlled in order to generate a high-quality mesh. Hence, several techniques have been developed to limit the gradient of the element size. However, the obtained discretizations do not always reproduce the prescribed size function. This is of the major importance for quadrilateral meshes, since they are much more constrained ...

This paper provides an error analysis for the Crank–Nicolson extrapolation scheme of time discretization applied to the spatially discrete stabilized finite element approximation of the two-dimensional time-dependent Navier–Stokes problem, where the finite element space pair (Xh,Mh) for the approximation (uh, p n h) of the velocity u and the pressure p is constructed by the low-order finite ele...

In this paper, we introduce a mixed finite element method on a staggered mesh for the numerical solution of the steady state Navier-Stokes equations in which the two components of the velocity and the pressure are defined on three different meshes. This method is a conforming quadrilateral Q1 × Q1 − P0 element approximation for the Navier-Stokes equations. First-order error estimates are obtain...

We prove the optimal order of convergence for some two-dimensional finite element methods for the Stokes equations. First we consider methods of the Taylor-Hood type: the triangular Pi P2 element and the Qk Qk-\ > k ^ 2 , family of quadrilateral elements. Then we introduce two new low-order methods with piecewise constant approximations for the pressure. The analysis is performed using our macr...

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...

For every smooth Jordan curve $\gamma $ and cyclic quadrilateral $Q$ in the Euclidean plane, we show that there exists an orientation-preserving similarity taking vertices of to . The proof relies on theorem Polterovich Viterbo embedded Lagrangian torus ${\mathbb{C}}^{2}$ has minimum Maslov number 2.