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In this paper we venture a new look at the linear isotropic indeterminate couple stress model in the general framework of second gradient elasticity and we propose a new alternative formulation which obeys Cauchy-Boltzmann's axiom of the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2015-04-06 Ionel-Dumitrel Ghiba , Patrizio Neff , Angela Madeo , Ingo Münch

Starting from a Cauchy elastic composite with a dilute suspension of randomly distributed inclusions and characterized at first-order by a certain discrepancy tensor (see part I of the present article), it is shown that the equivalent…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2014-01-03 Bacca Mattia , Bigoni Davide , Dal Corso Francesco , Veber Daniele

Two nonconforming finite element Stokes complexes starting from the conforming Lagrange element and ending with the nonconforming $P_1$-$P_0$ element for the Stokes equation in three dimensions are constructed. And commutative diagrams are…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-01 Xuehai Huang

Soft materials exhibit significant nonlinear geometric deformations and stress-strain relationships under external forces. This paper explores weakly nonlinear elasticity theories, including Landau's and Murnaghan's formulations, advancing…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-04-29 Yangkun Du , Nicholas A Hill , XIaoyu Luo

A finite element elasticity complex on tetrahedral meshes is devised. The $H^1$ conforming finite element is the smooth finite element developed by Neilan for the velocity field in a discrete Stokes complex. The symmetric div-conforming…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Long Chen , Xuehai Huang

In this contribution, we present a new Materials Knowledge System framework for microstructure-sensitive predictions of effective stress--strain responses in composite materials. The model is developed for composites with a wide range of…

Materials Science · Physics 2018-12-17 Marat I. Latypov , Laszlo S. Toth , Surya R. Kalidindi

The classical continuum models used for the woven fabrics do not fully describe the whole set of phenomena that occur during the testing of those materials. This incompleteness is partially due to the absence of energy terms related to some…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-18 Gabriele Barbagallo , Angela Madeo , Ismael Azehaf , Ivan Giorgio , Fabrice Morestin , Philippe Boisse

In the perspective of homogenization theory, strain-gradient elasticity is a strategy to describe the overall behaviour of materials with coarse mesostructure. In this approach, the effect of the mesostructure is described by the use of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2021-02-03 Nicolas Auffray , Houssam Andoul-Anziz , Boris Desmorat

The thin plate spline smoother is a classical model for fnding a smooth function from the knowledge of its observation at scattered locations which may have random noises. We consider a nonconforming Morley finite element method to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Zhiming Chen , Rui Tuo , Wenlong Zhang

Nonlinear elastic models are widely used to describe the elastic response of crystalline solids, for example, the well-known Cauchy-Born model. While the Cauchy-Born model only depends on the strain, effects of higher order strain gradients…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-05-20 Yangshuai Wang , Hao Wang , Lei Zhang

In this paper we present a nonconforming finite element method for solving fourth order curl equations in three dimensions arising from magnetohydrodynamics models. We show that the method has an optimal error estimate for a model problem…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2010-02-02 Bin Zheng , Qiya Hu , Jinchao Xu

Incompressible nonlinearly hyperelastic materials are rarely simulated in Finite Element numerical experiments as being perfectly incompressible because of the numerical difficulties associated with globally satisfying this constraint. Most…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-09-07 Aisling Ni Annaidh , Michel Destrade , Michael D. Gilchrist , Jerry G. Murphy

A robust nonconforming mixed finite element method is developed for a strain gradient elasticity (SGE) model. In two and three dimensional cases, a lower order $C^0$-continuous $H^2$-nonconforming finite element is constructed for the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-09-25 Mingqing Chen , Jianguo Huang , Xuehai Huang

In a previous paper \cite{Itskov-MoSM} we presented a hyperelastic isotropic material model whose stress-strain response is nonlinear even at infinitesimal deformations and cannot thus be linearized. As a result values of Poisson's ratio…

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This paper introduces a nonconforming virtual element method for general second-order elliptic problems with variable coefficients on domains with curved boundaries and curved internal interfaces. We prove arbitrary order optimal…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-25 Yi Liu , Alessandro Russo

The nonconforming triangular piecewise quadratic finite element space by Fortin and Soulie can be used for the displacement approximation and its combination with discontinuous piecewise linear pressure elements is known to constitute a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Fleurianne Bertrand , Marcel Moldenhauer , Gerhard Starke

We present a nonlinear model of weakly curved rod, namely the type of curved rod where the curvature is of the order of the diameter of the cross-section. We use the approach analogous to the one for rods and curved rods and start from the…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2011-02-15 Igor Velčić

In this paper, we construct two lower order mixed elements for the linear elasticity problem in the Hellinger-Reissner formulation, one for the 2D problem and one for the 3D problem, both on macro-element meshes. The discrete stress spaces…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Jun Hu , Rui Ma , Yuanxun Sun

This paper studies adaptive first-order least-squares finite element methods for second-order elliptic partial differential equations in non-divergence form. Unlike the classical finite element method which uses weak formulations of PDEs…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-28 Weifeng Qiu , Shun Zhang

An $hp$-adaptive continuous Galerkin finite element method is developed to analyze a static anti-plane shear crack embedded in a nonlinear, strain-limiting elastic body. The geometrically linear material is described by a constitutive law…

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