Abstract

Polyhedral elements with an arbitrary number of nodes or non-planar faces, obtained with an edge-based smoothed finite element method, retain good geometric adaptability and accuracy in solution. This work is intended to extend the polyhedral elements to nonlinear elastic analysis with finite deformations. In order to overcome the volumetric locking problem, a smoothing domain-based selective smoothed finite element method scheme and a three-field-mixed cell-based smoothed finite element method with nodal cells were developed. Using several numerical examples, their performance and the accuracy of their solutions were examined, and their effectiveness for practical applications was demonstrated as well.

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