A Modified Smoothed Finite Element Method for Static and Free Vibration Analysis of Solid Mechanics

The smoothed finite element method (S-FEM) proposed recently is more accurate and has higher convergence rate compared with standard four-node isoparametric finite element method (FEM). In this work, a modified S-FEM using four-node quadrilateral elements is proposed, which greatly reduces further the computation cost while maintaining the high accuracy and convergence rate. The key idea of the proposed modification is that the strain of the element is a weighted average value of the smoothed strains in the smoothing cells (SCs), which means that only one integration point is required to construct the stiffness matrix, similar to the single cell S-FEM. A stabilization item is proposed using the differences of the smoothed strains obtained in four SCs, which installs the stability of algorithm and increases the accuracy. To verify the efficiency, accuracy and stability of the present formulation, a number of numerical examples of static and free vibration problems, are studied in comparison with different existing numerical methods.

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