Research Article

Fast Stiffness Matrix Calculation for Nonlinear Finite Element Method

Table 4

The displacements (in m) at green nodes using the nonlinear FEM for the second experiment. The displacements at blue nodes are zero.

Node Displacement- Displacement- Displacement-

0 −2.083 4.102 0.3798
1 4.72 2.298 0.3588
2 2.913 −4.501 0.4586
3 −3.884 −2.699 0.4809
20 3.28 −2.561 −0.424
21 −2.842 −3.931 −0.4032
22 −4.217 2.194 −0.3018
23 1.911 3.565 −0.3212