{ "title": "MacNeal–Harder straight cantilever, regular hex8 mesh 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. 4(a) (p. 7) geometry, material and mesh; Table 3 (p. 10) theoretical tip displacements", "quantities": [ { "id": "extension", "quantity": "tip displacement along the load, extension", "measure": { "command": "solve.probe", "params": { "step": "Extension", "at": [ [ 6.0, 0, 0 ] ] }, "pointer": "/nodes/0/displacement/0" }, "value": 3e-05, "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)" }, { "id": "in_plane", "quantity": "tip displacement along the load, in-plane shear (width 0.2)", "measure": { "command": "solve.probe", "params": { "step": "In_plane", "at": [ [ 6.0, 0, 0 ] ] }, "pointer": "/nodes/0/displacement/1" }, "value": 0.1081, "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": "0.978 of the theory, grade B: one hex8 with incompatible modes through the depth of the prescribed mesh (MacNeal–Harder's HEXA(8): 0.981, Table 8(a) p. 15); refined meshes converge (cantilever-hex8-incompatible)" }, { "id": "out_of_plane", "quantity": "tip displacement along the load, out-of-plane shear (depth 0.1)", "measure": { "command": "solve.probe", "params": { "step": "Out_of_plane", "at": [ [ 6.0, 0, 0 ] ] }, "pointer": "/nodes/0/displacement/2" }, "value": 0.4321, "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": "0.973 of the theory, grade B, as for in-plane shear (MacNeal–Harder's HEXA(8): 0.981)" }, { "id": "twist", "quantity": "tip rotation under a unit twisting moment", "measure": { "from": "twist", "pointer": "/reference_points/0/displacement/3" }, "value": 0.03208, "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); the moment reaches the end through a distributing coupling", "known_failure": "0.892 of the theory, grade C: one element across the section cannot represent the torsion warping (MacNeal–Harder's HEXA(8): 0.910, HEX20: 0.904)" } ] }