SUMMARYPatch recovery based on superconvergent derivatives and equilibrium (SPRE), an enhancement of the Superconvergent Patch Recovery (SPR), is studied for linear elasticity problems. The paper also presents a further improvement for recovery of derivatives near boundaries, SPREB, where either tractions or displacements are prescribed. This is made by inclusion of weighted residual errors at boundary points in the patch recovery. A pronounced improvement in the post processed gradients of the finite element solution is observed by this method.

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SUMMARYThis paper studies a time-discontinuous Galerkin finite element method for structural dynamic problems, by which both displacements and velocities are approximated as piecewise linear functions in the time domain and may be discontinuous at the discrete time levels. A new iterative solution algorithm which involves only one factorization for each fixed time step size and a few iterations at each step is presented for solving the resulted system of coupled equations. By using the jumps of the displacements and the velocities in the total energy norm as error indicators, an adaptive time-stepping procedure for selecting the proper time step size is described. Numerical examples including both single-DOF and multi-DOF problems are used to illustrate the performance of these algorithms. Comparisons with the exact results and/or the results by the Newmark integration scheme are given. It is shown that the time-discontinuous Galerkin finite element method discussed in this study possesses good accuracy (third order) and stability properties, its numerical implementation is not difficult, and the higher computational cost needed in each time step is compensated by use of a larger time step size.

SUMMARYIn this paper a postprocessing technique is developed for determining first-order derivatives (fluxes, stresses) at nodal points based on derivatives in superconvergent points. It is an extension of the superconvergent patch recovery technique presented by Zienkiewicz and Zhu. In contrast to that technique all flux or stress components are interpolated at the same time, coupled by equilibrium equations at the superconvergent points. The equilibrium equations and use of one order higher degree of interpolation polynomials of stress give a dramatic decrease in error of recovered derivatives even at boundaries.

SUMMARYIn most plate elements using the Reissner-Mindlin assumptions, the interpolations used for the lateral displacements (w) and the rotation (8) involve the independent representation of each variable by its nodal values, usually with identical interpolations. To ensure a higher order of expansion for displacement MI its representation is linked in the present paper with both sets of nodal variables.Conditions necessary for the use of such expansions are established here and the paper shows the development of a linear quadrilateral element (Q4BL) whose performance and robustness are good (although it possesses one singularity if only three degrees of freedom are prescribed).In Part 11 we apply the identical formulation to develop a triangular element (T3BL) which performs equally well and is fully robust.