Automatic adaptive refinement finite element procedure for 3D stress analysis

Finite Elements in Analysis and Design

Volumn 25, Issue 1-2 SPEC. ISS., 1997, Pages 135-166

  Lee, C K ^a   Lo, S H ^b  

^a IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ERROR ANALYSIS; ITERATIVE METHODS; PROBLEM SOLVING; STRESS ANALYSIS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

AUTOMATIC ADAPTIVE REFINEMENT FINITE ELEMENT PROCEDURE; CONJUGATE GRADIENT TECHNIQUE; ERROR ESTIMATORS; SUPERCONVERGENT PATCH RECOVERY TECHNIQUE;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

FINITE ELEMENT ANALYSIS; STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 0031103756     PISSN: 0168874X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/s0168-874x(96)00031-5     Document Type: Article

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