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The strain formulation in elasticity and the compatibility condition in structural mechanics have neither been understood nor have they been utilized. This shortcoming prevented the formulation of a direct method to calculate stress and strain, which are currently obtained indirectly by differentiating the displacement. We have researched and understood the compatibility condition for linear problems in elasticity and in finite element structural analysis. This has lead to the completion of the “method of force” with stress (or stress resultant) as the primary unknown. The method in elasticity is referred to as the completed Beltrami-Michell formulation (CBMF), and it is the integrated force method (IFM) in the finite element analysis. The dual integrated force method (IFMD) with displacement as the primary unknown had been formulated. Both the IFM and IFMD produce identical responses. The IFMD can utilize the equation solver of the traditional stiffness method. The variational derivation of the CBMF produced the existing sets of elasticity equations along with the new boundary compatibility conditions, which were missed since the time of Saint-Venant, who formulated the field equations about 1860. The CBMF, which can be used to solve stress, displacement, and mixed boundary value problems, has eliminated the restriction of the classical method that was applicable only to stress boundary value problem. The IFM in structures produced high-fidelity response even with a modest finite element model. Because structural design is stress driven, the IFM has influenced it considerably. A fully utilized design method for strength and stiffness limitation was developed via the IFM analysis tool. The method has identified the singularity condition in structural optimization and furnished a strategy that alleviated the limitation and reduced substantially the computation time to reach the optimum solution. The CBMF and IFM tensorial approaches are robust formulations because both methods simultaneously emphasize the equilibrium equation and the compatibility condition. The vectorial displacement method emphasized the equilibrium, while the compatibility condition became the basis of the scalar stress-function approach. The tensorial approach can be transformed to obtain the vector and the scalar methods, but the reverse course cannot be followed. The tensorial approach outperformed other methods as expected. This paper introduces the new concepts in elasticity, in finite element analysis, and in design optimization with numerical illustrations.
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Patnaik, S.N., Pai, S.S. & Hopkins, D.A. Compatibility Condition in Theory of Solid Mechanics (Elasticity, Structures, and Design Optimization). Arch Computat Methods Eng 14, 431–457 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11831-007-9011-9
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