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Quad4 and improvemenets in Quad4R #25

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Quad4 and improvemenets in Quad4R #25

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Quad4R was the only available quadrilateral finite element. Despite beinf very efficient, the Quad4R suffered from:

  • hourglassing and the current hourglass control method is not generally robust
  • drilling stiffness was coupled with the in-plane rotation, coupling the DOFs rz, u and v

With this pull request the following is implemented:

  • Quad4 element with mixed integration that eliminates hourglass modes
  • K6ROT in its pure form, directly entering the diagonal terms of the stiffness matrix corresponding to the rz DOF, without coupling with u and v

@saullocastro saullocastro added documentation Improvements or additions to documentation enhancement Improve existing feature, improved algorithms development New features, new methods, new elements labels Aug 2, 2024
@saullocastro saullocastro self-assigned this Aug 2, 2024
@saullocastro saullocastro merged commit 1c3fdc0 into main Aug 5, 2024
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@saullocastro saullocastro deleted the quad4 branch August 5, 2024 07:09
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