A 13-point sampling point scheme for 20-node brick elements

Abstract

A new sampling point scheme with 13 evaluation points was introduced in this research study for 20-node brick elements. The new sampling points were located inside the brick element at the edges and the center point of the 20-node brick element. This integration scheme can be assumed to be an imitation of the Gaussian integration scheme. Standard benchmark problems were chosen from the different research works and compared with our proposed scheme. Finally, the proposed integration scheme achieves good results for 20-node brick elements on different performance parameters of finite element analysis.