A new look into finite element templates

Wojciech Gilewski

Abstract


The present paper is dedicated to evaluation and new method of construction the finite element templates. A template is an algebraic form of element matrices, which contains free parameters. Setting the parameters to specific values produces element instances. Two templates are analyzed: Bernoulli and Timoshenko beam. The number of free parameters is discussed by a general method


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