A study of the accuracy of some FEM stress recovery schemes for 2D stress concentration problems

Finite Elements in Analysis and Design

Volumn 29, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 105-119

  Tenchev, Rosen T ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

Finite element stress recovery and accuracy; Stress concentration; Stress distribution in an element

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; MATRIX ALGEBRA; STRESS CONCENTRATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD STRESS RECOVERY METHODS; JACOBIAN MATRIX; PLANE QUADRILATERAL ISOPARAMETRIC ELEMENTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0032090080     PISSN: 0168874X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0168-874X(98)00017-1     Document Type: Article

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