Research Article

Fast Stiffness Matrix Calculation for Nonlinear Finite Element Method

Table 1

The displacements (in m) at nodes 1, 2, 3, and 4 using the linear FEM for the first experiment. The displacements of nodes 5 to 8 for all axes are zero.

Node Displacement-Displacement-Displacement-

1 0.027234 0.011064 −0.289965
2 0.004306 −0.109719 −0.440739
3 −0.066065 −0.056547 −0.343519
4 −0.107536 0.070143 −0.514524