Why is the element stiffness matrix singular in a finite element formulation? 1. So that it can accomodate rigid element dis- placements without introducing spurious nodal 2 Because we made a mistake in the formula- tion the stiffness matrix should not be sin- g 3. Because we havent enforced any displace ment boundary conditions(it's a variational approach after all) Statement(1)
The finite element method In FEMi we derale finite element equations fro PVD swe- SWe and obtained: K0=R:=4…n waere n:number of element nodal p Ue: elenent nodal displace ents