This paper presents the strain-smoothed MITC3+ shell finite element for nonlinear analysis.
The strain-smoothed MITC3+ shell element, recently developed for linear analysis …

A novel edge center-based strain-smoothing method is put forward and applied to triangular
and tetrahedral finite elements for linear and geometric nonlinear analysis of elastic …

Numerous simulations have shown that Smoothed Finite Element Method (S-FEM) performs
better than the standard FEM. However, there is lack of rigorous mathematical proof on such …

In this paper, an edge center-based gradient-smoothing element method is proposed for
coupled thermoelasticity problems. The main achievement in our work is to construct the …

In this paper, an edge center based strain-smoothing element with discrete shear gap
method (ECSSE-DSG) based on triangular Reissner–Mindlin flat shell element is proposed …

Herein, we present effective polygonal finite elements to which the strain-smoothed element
(SSE) method is applied. Recently, the SSE method has been developed for conventional …

This paper presents a novel and efficient solution procedure to improve 3D solid finite
element analysis with an enrichment scheme. To this end, we employ finite elements …

Strain smoothing methods such as the smoothed finite element methods (S-FEMs) and the
strain-smoothed element method (SSE) have successfully improved the convergence …

In this paper, we study gradient smoothing methods (GSMs) with improved convergence
behaviors for high-contrast problems such as the flow in heterogeneous porous media. We …

The finite element method (FEM) plays a valuable role in computer modeling and is
beneficial to the mechanical design of various structural parts. However, the elements …