<div dir="ltr">Finite element analysis with punch cards. That's hard core!<div><br></div><div>-berk</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:27 PM, Bill Lorensen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:bill.lorensen@gmail.com" target="_blank">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Brings back memories of my finite element days, 1968-1978, at<br>
Watervliet Arsenal. At that time we worked with NASTRAN and we added a<br>
few elements for crack tip analysis....<br>
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Pu, S. L., M. A. Hussain, and W. E. Lorensen, The Collapsed Cubic<br>
Isoparametric Element as a Singular Element for Crack Problems,<br>
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 12,<br>
no. 11, pp. 1727-1742, 1978.<br>
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Hussain, M. A. and W. E. Lorensen, Isoparametric Elements as Singular<br>
Elements for Crack Problems, AR-LCB-TR-77041, Benet Weapons<br>
Laboratory, Watervliet, NY, November 1977.<br>
<br>
Hussain, M. A.; Pu, S. L.; Lorensen, W. E., Singular Plastic Element:<br>
NASTRAN Implementation and Application, Sixth NASTRAN Users' Colloq.,<br>
pp. 257-274, October, 1977, (NASA CP-2018).<br>
<br>
Pu, S. L., M. A. Hussain, and W. E. Lorensen, Collapsed 12-Node<br>
Triangular Elements as Crack Tip Elements for Elastic Fracture,<br>
ARLCB-TR-77047, Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, NY, December 1977.<br>
<br>
Lorensen, W. E. and M. A. Hussain, "The Stability of Isoparametric<br>
Elements as a Singular Element for Crack Problems," in Developments in<br>
Mechanics, ed. T. C. T. Ting, 1977.<br>
<br>
Pu, S. L., M. A. Hussain, and W. E. Lorensen, The Collapsed Cubic<br>
Isoparametric Element as a Singular Element for Crack Problems,<br>
AR-LCB-TR77047, Watervliet Arsenal, 1977.<br>
<br>
Hussain, M. A., W. E. Lorensen, and G. Pflegl, The Quarter-Point<br>
Quadratic Isoparametric Element as A Singular Element for Crack<br>
Problems, TM-X-3428, p. 419, NASA, 1976.<br>
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On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 2:17 PM, Berk Geveci <<a href="mailto:berk.geveci@kitware.com">berk.geveci@kitware.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> You rock Bill.<br>
><br>
> On Mon, Jun 15, 2015 at 1:31 PM, Bill Lorensen <<a href="mailto:bill.lorensen@gmail.com">bill.lorensen@gmail.com</a>><br>
> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> Folks,<br>
>><br>
>> I reported recently of issues with the shape functions and derivatives<br>
>> for the pentagonal prism. Since I could not find any references for<br>
>> the current implementation I used the formulation in this paper:<br>
>> <a href="http://dilbert.engr.ucdavis.edu/~suku/nem/papers/polyelas.pdf" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://dilbert.engr.ucdavis.edu/~suku/nem/papers/polyelas.pdf</a><br>
>> Since this paper did not have the shape function derivatives, I used<br>
>> SymPy ( <a href="http://www.sympy.org/en/index.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.sympy.org/en/index.html</a> ) to compute the<br>
>> derivatives.<br>
>><br>
>> I'm happy to report that the new formulation does a great job and<br>
>> passes the new unit test I created for cells.<br>
>><br>
>> I have not submitted a patch yet since I want the code to document the<br>
>> process. I wrote c++ code and SymPy code to generate the statements<br>
>> for the new formulation.<br>
>><br>
>> I wanted to give a heads up in case someone else is looking into this.<br>
>><br>
>> Bill<br>
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