Research Article

Fast Stiffness Matrix Calculation for Nonlinear Finite Element Method

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(a) Initial misshapen nose. (b) The head mesh is constrained at the blue nodes and pushed upwards at the green nodes. (c) The result of the nonlinear FEM: left: wireframe surface mesh with nodes; right: shaded mesh with texture.
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