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....power. APPENDIX A FEM A. Construction of Local Element Stiffness Matrix If the thickness of the triangular element is assumed to be constant, the inplane stiffness matrix can be separated into two parts; one the matrix due to normal stresses , and the other due to shear stresses (see Rao [40]) The components of these matrices can be given in the explicit form as shown by the first set of equations at the bottom of the next page, where thickness of the element; Young s modulus; area of the triangle; Poisson s ratio. Young s modulus determines the flexibility of the object, ....

....direction of loading (Hence, smaller values of Poisson s ratio indicates that the object will not stretch much under tension. BASDOGAN et al. VIRTUAL ENVIRONMENTS FOR MEDICAL TRAINING 281 Similarly, the bending stiffness matrix can be expressed as the multiplication of three matrices (see Rao [40]) where (see matrix equation at the bottom of the page) and is a symmetric matrix with elements described as B. Computer Implementation of Assembly of Overall Stiffness Matrix (Adapted from Rao [40] If is stored as a symmetric square matrix initialize (set the elements of the matrix to ....

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S. S. Rao, The Finite Element Method in Engineering. New York: Pergamon, 1988.

....J(q) J(q) Q 1 (q)J T (q)#(q) 3. Modeling of the deformable object We discretize the deformable object using finite elements. For each element, the displacements U within its volume can be expressed in terms of the displacements at its nodes, U=Nq, where N is the matrix of shape functions (Rao, 1989). The deformations, #, displacements, U, and stresses, # are related as follows #=D U #=E #. Substituting yields #=Bq. The dynamic equations of each element can be derived following Lagrange s formulation: M e q e C e q# e K e q e =F i e The characteristic matrices appearing in ....

Rao, S., 1989. The Finite Element Method in Engineering. Pergamon Press.

....interpolation procedures. D. 2 Spatial Interpolation One of three techniques may be used for the spatial interpolation of velocity: physical space linear interpolation [16] volume weighted interpolation [15] and linear basis function interpolation [17] All three are mathematically equivalent [1,18] and produce identical interpolation functions. The authors showed previously [1] that the linear basis function was the most efficient technique for this application because it reused the natural coordinates computed during point location. Using the numbering convention in Fig. 2, the linear ....

S. Rao, The Finite Element Method in Engineering, Pergamon Press, pp. 121-135, 1982.

....reducing the amount of disk swapping required. Keywords: Algebraic Multigrid, Linear Systems, Finite Element Method, Parallel Computing, Distributed Processing. 1 Introduction The finite element method (FEM) was originally developed in the 1960 s to solve structural problems in aircraft design [1]. Since then, the method has been heavily researched and applied to a variety of different fields, including engineering, medicine, biology, and physics. FEM is a very practical tool for solving partial differential equations in that it deals well with irregular problem domains and boundary ....

S.S. Rao. The Finite Element Method in Engineering. Pergammon Press, Second edition, 1989.

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S S Rao. The Finite Element Method in Engineering. Butterworth-Heinemann, 1999.

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