Notes of
SIGGRAPH 2012 FEM course
Xutong Jin
2023-02-06
FEM
Continuous
Discretization
Undeformed configuration
Deformed location
Deformation gradient tensor
Deformation
Hyperelastic strain energy
Strain energy per unit undeformed volume
Total energy
Elastic force: intuitive understanding
Force per unit undeformed volume
Aggregate force
Force per unit undeformed area
Aggregate force
Stress tensor
1st Piola-Kirchhoff stress tensor (3*3 matrix)
For hyperelastic material
Boundary and Internal Inconsistency
Intuitive way: Strain measures
Green strain tensor
Discard rotation as
Linear approximation
Linear elasticity
strain energy density
Young's modulus
Poisson's ratio
Piola stress
St. Venant-Kirchhoff model
Corotated linear elasticity
Isotropic materials
hyperelastic constitutive model
rotationally invariant and isotropic
Isotropic materials and invariants
isotropic invariant
Neohookean elasticity
Energy and force discretization
Discrete state
Interpolated deformation map
Strain energy
Discrete energy
Discrete elastic forces
For individual elements
energy
force
Linear tetrahedral elements
In every tetrahedron
constant deformation gradient
Determine
Volume
Nonsingular for nonzero volume
Deformation gradient
Strain energy
Force
Force differentials
Expensive expression (stiffness matrix)
Directly
Constitutive model related
Stress differentials for St. Venant-Kirchhoff materials
Stress differentials for Neohookean materials
Model reduction
Linear modal analysis
Nonlinear model reduction
cubic polynomial
quadrature points
Choice of basis
Basis from simulation data