Construction of n-sided polygonal spline element using area coordinates and B-net method

In general, triangular and quadrilateral elements are commonly applied in two-dimensional finite element methods. If they are used to compute polycrystalline materials, the cost of computation can be quite significant. Polygonal elements can do well in simulation of the materials behavior and provide greater flexibility for the meshing of complex geometries. Hence, the study on the polygonal element is a very useful and necessary part in the finite element method. In this paper, an n-sided polygonal element based on quadratic spline interpolant, denoted by PS2 element, is presented using the triangular area coordinates and the B-net method. The PS2 element is conforming and can exactly model the quadratic field. It is valid for both convex and non-convex polygonal element, and insensitive to mesh distortions. In addition, no mapping or coordinate transformation is required and thus no Jacobian matrix and its inverse are evaluated. Some appropriate examples are employed to evaluate the performance of the proposed element.

A Blend of Subdivision Surfaces and NURBS

In present paper, the contour deletion method is developed both to blend surfaces and to fill N-sided holes, which is used for subdividing the NURBS surface. First, according to the non-uniform Catmull-Clark subdivision principle, surfaces are blended. The non-uniform Catmull-Clark subdivision method is constructed, which build the surface through interpolating comer vertices and boundary curves. Then the contour deletion method is adapted to remove the controlling mesh boundary contour in the process of segmentation iteration. Last, N sided-hole is filled to generate a integral smooth continuous surface. This method not only guarantee that the blending surface and base surface patches have C2 continuity at the boundary, but also greatly improve the smoothness of the N-side hole filling surface. The results show that, this method simplifies the specific computer-implemented process, broads the scope of application of subdivision surfaces, and solves the incompatible problem between the subdivision surface and classical spline. The resulting surface has both advantages of the subdivision surface and classical spline, and also has better filling effect.

Constructing M-sided Patches with NURBS

The paper first summarizes the development of generating N-sided surface patches , andthen proposes a method of constructing general N-sided patches whose boundary curves and crossderivatives are Bspline curves of degree 3. The patch constructed is made up of n rectangularNURBS subpatches of degrees 7 ×7. The method is implemented in two steps : first , an N-sidedGregory patch is constructed, then, using our recent research on blended B-spline surface, nrectangular NURBS subpatches of degrees 7×7 are constructed to form an Nsided patch in termsof the data calculated in the first step. At the end of the paper , conclusions and some examples aregiven.