Arbitrary placement of local meshes in a global mesh by the interface-element method (IEM)

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 56, Issue 15, 2003, Pages 2279-2312

  Kim, Hyun Gyu ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Crack propagation; Finite element method; Global local analysis; Interface element method; Non matching interface; Partitioned domains

Indexed keywords

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; STRAIN;

LOCAL MESHES;

INTERFACES (MATERIALS);

MATHEMATICAL METHOD;

EID: 0012763289     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.648     Document Type: Article

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