Adaptive hpq-finite element methods of hierarchical models for plate- and shell-like structures

Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Volumn 136, Issue 3-4, 1996, Pages 317-345

  Tinsley Oden, J ^a   Cho, J R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; MODELS; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS; PLATES (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); SHELLS (STRUCTURES);

APPROXIMATION ORDER; HIERARCHICAL MODELS; MESH SIZE; MODEL LEVEL;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0030232291     PISSN: 00457825     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0045-7825(95)00986-8     Document Type: Article

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