{ "title": "MacNeal–Harder curved cantilever, hex8 with incompatible modes", "kind": "benchmark", "source": "MacNeal and Harder, 'A proposed standard set of problems to test finite element accuracy', Finite Elements in Analysis and Design 1 (1985) 3–20: Fig. 5 (p. 7) geometry, material and mesh; Table 3 (p. 10) theoretical tip displacements", "quantities": [ { "id": "in_plane", "quantity": "tip displacement along the in-plane load", "measure": { "command": "solve.probe", "params": { "step": "In_plane", "at": [ [ 0, 4.12, 0 ] ] }, "pointer": "/nodes/0/displacement/1" }, "value": 0.08734, "tolerance": { "relative": 0.02 }, "reason": "MacNeal and Harder grade an element A within 2% of the theoretical value on this prescribed coarse mesh (p. 14)", "known_failure": "0.880 of the theory, grade C: straight-sided hex8 on six elements over 90° (MacNeal–Harder's HEXA(8): 0.880, Table 9 p. 15)" }, { "id": "out_of_plane", "quantity": "tip displacement along the out-of-plane load", "measure": { "command": "solve.probe", "params": { "step": "Out_of_plane", "at": [ [ 0, 4.12, 0 ] ] }, "pointer": "/nodes/0/displacement/2" }, "value": 0.5022, "tolerance": { "relative": 0.02 }, "reason": "MacNeal and Harder grade an element A within 2% of the theoretical value on this prescribed coarse mesh (p. 14)", "known_failure": "0.798 of the theory, grade D: out-of-plane bending with torsion on one element across (MacNeal–Harder's HEXA(8): 0.849)" } ] }