## Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Publications and Presentations

Post-Print

2011

#### Subjects

Finite element method, Elasticity, Lagrange equations, Numerical analysis

#### Abstract

We present a family of mixed methods for linear elasticity that yield exactly symmetric, but only weakly conforming, stress approximations. The method is presented in both two and three dimensions (on triangular and tetrahedral meshes). The method is efficiently implementable by hybridization. The degrees of freedom of the Lagrange multipliers, which approximate the displacements at the faces, solve a symmetric positive-definite system. The design and analysis of this method is motivated by a new set of unisolvent degrees of freedom for symmetric polynomial matrices. These new degrees of freedom are also used to give a new simple calculation of the dimension of the space of polynomial symmetric matrix fields with vanishing normal traces and zero divergence on a tetrahedron. Such a dimension count was important in the development of the symmetric $H(\mathrm{div})$ conforming methods found in [D. N. Arnold, G. Awanou, and R. Winther, Math. Comp., 77 (2008), pp. 1229–1251].

#### Description

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. A definitive version was subsequently published in SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 49(4), 1504–1520 and can be found online at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1137/10080018X

#### DOI

10.1137/10080018X

#### Persistent Identifier

http://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/10627

COinS