A new 8-node quadrilateral spline finite element

Authors:
Chong-Jun Li;Ren-Hong Wang
Affiliations:
Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, PR China;Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Dalian University of Technology, Dalian, PR China
Venue:
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics - Special issue: The international symposium on computing and information (ISCI2004)
Year:
2006

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Abstract

By using bivariate quadratic splines on triangulated quadrangulations (or FVS triangulations), we construct a new 8-node quadrilateral element, which reproduces polynomials of degree 2, and possesses second-order completeness in Cartesian coordinates. The computation of derivatives, integrals and products of the element shape functions can be simplified greatly by using their Bézier coefficients on each triangle cell. Some appropriate examples are employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed element. The numerical results show that the new spline element is superior to the standard 8-node isoparametric element, and is comparable to some other 8-node quadrilateral elements.