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Analytic Eigensystems for Isotropic Membrane Energies

Numerical Analysis 2020-08-26 v1 Numerical Analysis

Abstract

We extend the approach of [Smith et al. 2019] to derive analytical expressions for the eigenvalues and eigenmatrices of an isotropic membrane energy density function ψ:R3x2R\psi : \mathbb{R}^{3x2} \to \mathbb{R}. Clamping the eigenvalue expressions to be positive for each quadrature point of a finite element membrane simulation guarantees a positive semi-definite Hessian for the full discrete membrane energy, enabling an efficient Newton-type simulation.

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@article{arxiv.2008.10698,
  title  = {Analytic Eigensystems for Isotropic Membrane Energies},
  author = {Julian Panetta},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2008.10698},
  year   = {2020}
}

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4 page technical report without figures

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