Analysis of 2-dimensional transient problems for linear elastic and piezoelectric structures using the consecutive-interpolation quadrilateral element (CQ4)

The recently developed consecutive-interpolation procedure (CIP) based 4-node quadrilateral element (CQ4) is used to study free and forced 2-dimensional vibrations of elastic and piezoelectric structures of complex geometries. For some of these problems results have also been computed with the standard quadrilateral element under the constraint that the two approaches have the same number of degrees of freedom. In each case it is found that the...