On the selection of a locking-free hp element for elasticity problems

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 40, Issue 11, 1997, Pages 2045-2062

  Chilton, Lawrence ^a   Suri, Manil ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND BALTIMORE COUNTY   (United States)

Author keywords

hp version; Locking; Mixed methods; P version; Robust

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; STRESSES;

MIXED FORMULATIONS;

ELASTICITY;

EID: 0031168794     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19970615)40:11<2045::AID-NME158>3.0.CO;2-Z     Document Type: Article

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