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We present a stable finite element method for incompressible nonlinear elasticity based on a four-field mixed formulation involving the displacement, displacement gradient, first Piola--Kirchhoff stress and pressure. Unlike existing…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Santiago Badia , Wei Li , Ricardo Ruiz-Baier

This paper is to prove superconvergence of a family of simple conforming mixed finite elements of first orderfor the linear elasticity problem with the Hellinger--Reissner variational formulation. The analysis is based on three main…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-07-01 Jun Hu , Shangyou Zhang

Two non-overlapping domain decomposition methods are presented for the mixed finite element formulation of linear elasticity with weakly enforced stress symmetry. The methods utilize either displacement or normal stress Lagrange multiplier…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-11-28 Eldar Khattatov , Ivan Yotov

In this paper, we study the construction of low-degree robust finite element schemes for planar linear elasticity on general triangulations. Firstly, we present a low-degree nonconforming Helling-Reissner finite element scheme. For the…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-09-22 Shuo Zhang

We introduce a new class of mixed finite element methods for 2D and 3D compressible nonlinear elasticity. The independent unknowns of these conformal methods are displacement, displacement gradient, and the first Piola-Kirchhoff stress…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-10-22 Arzhang Angoshtari , Ali Gerami Matin

We analyze the application to elastodynamic problems of mixed finite element methods for elasticity with weak symmetry. Our approach leads to a semidiscrete method which consists of a system of ordinary differential equations without…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Douglas N. Arnold , Jeonghun J. Lee

In this work, we study a primal hybrid finite element method for the approximation of linear elasticity problems, posed in terms of displacement, an auxiliary pressure field, and a Lagrange multiplier related to the traction. We develop a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-01-30 Giovanni Taraschi , Maicon Ribeiro Correa

We propose a novel mixed finite-element formulation for geometrically exact (Simo--Reissner) beams that introduces the moment vector as additional independent field. The specific mixed form allows for an element-local, discontinuous…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Alexander Humer , Ivo Steinbrecher , Astrid Pechstein

We consider mixed finite element methods for linear elasticity where the symmetry of the stress tensor is weakly enforced. Both an a priori and a posteriori error analysis are given for several known families of methods that are uniformly…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Philip L. Lederer , Rolf Stenberg

A stress equilibration procedure for linear elasticity is proposed and analyzed in this paper with emphasis on the behavior for (nearly) incompressible materials. Based on the displacement-pressure approximation computed with a stable…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-01 Fleurianne Bertrand , Bernhard Kober , Marcel Moldenhauer , Gerhard Starke

We propose two families of mixed finite elements for solving the classical Hellinger-Reissner mixed problem of the linear elasticity equations in three dimensions. First, a family of conforming mixed triangular prism elements is constructed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2016-04-28 Jun Hu , Rui Ma

We consider mechanics of composite materials in which thin inclusions are modeled by lower-dimensional manifolds. By successively applying the dimensional reduction to junctions and intersections within the material, a geometry of…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-03-06 Wietse M. Boon , Jan M. Nordbotten

This paper considers the coupled problem of a three-dimensional elastic body and a two-dimensional plate, which are rigidly connected at their interface. The plate consists of a plane elasticity model along the longitudinal direction and a…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Jun Hu , Zhen Liu , Rui Ma

New low-order $H(\textrm{div})$-conforming finite elements for symmetric tensors are constructed in arbitrary dimension. The space of shape functions is defined by enriching the symmetric quadratic polynomial space with the $(d+1)$-order…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-02-22 Xuehai Huang , Chao Zhang , Yaqian Zhou , Yangxing Zhu

In this paper, we propose a robust low-order stabilization-free virtual element method on quadrilateral meshes for linear elasticity that is based on the stress-hybrid principle. We refer to this approach as the Stress-Hybrid Virtual…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2023-11-28 Alvin Chen , N. Sukumar

In this paper a higher-order mixed finite element method for elastoplasticity with linear kinematic hardening is analyzed. Thereby, the non-differentiability of the involved plasticity functional is resolved by a Lagrange multiplier leading…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-18 Patrick Bammer , Lothar Banz , Andreas Schröder

We study the discretisation of a uniaxial (rank-one) reduction of the Oldroyd-B model for dilute polymer solutions, in which the conformation tensor is represented as $\sig = \vec b \otimes \vec b$. Building on structural analogies with…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Ben S. Ashby , Gabriel R. Barrenechea , Alex Lukyanov , Tristan Pryer , Alex Trenam

We consider the equilibrium equations for a linearized Cosserat material and provide two perspectives concerning well-posedness. First, the system can be viewed as the Hodge Laplace problem on a differential complex. On the other hand, we…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Wietse Marijn Boon , Omar Duran , Jan Martin Nordbotten

We study a fictitious domain approach with Lagrange multipliers to discretize Stokes equations on a mesh that does not fit the boundaries. A mixed finite element method is used for fluid flow. Several stabilization terms are added to…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-10-24 Michel Fournié , Alexei Lozinski

We propose a framework for unified analysis of mixed methods for elasticity with weakly symmetric stress. Based on a commuting diagram in the weakly symmetric elasticity complex and extending a previous stability result, stable mixed…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-10-12 Jeonghun J. Lee