Principle of Virtual Displacements Consider a body in equilibrium. We know that the stress field must satisfy the differential equations of equilibrium. Multiply the differential equations of equilibrium by an \arbitrary\displacement field T
By looking at the potential energy of an element, what can you conclude about the properties required for the basis functions of an euler -bernoulli beam element? They should be differentiable twice
How many zero eigenvalues do you think any element stiffness matrix (regardless of the type of finite element nterpolation should have in 2D and 3D, respectively?