On using degenerated solid shell elements in adaptive refinement analysis

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 45, Issue 6, 1999, Pages 627-659

  Lee, C K ^a,b   Sze, K Y ^a   Lo, S H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Adaptive refinement analysis; Boundary layers; Degenerated solid shell elements; Patch stress recovery; Stress singularities

Indexed keywords

EID: 0000738588     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990630)45:6<627::AID-NME602>3.0.CO;2-Q     Document Type: Article

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