A novel four-node quadrilateral smoothing element for stress enhancement and error estimation

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1527-1543

  Tessler, A ^a   Riggs, H R ^b   Dambach, M ^c  

^a NASA LANGLEY RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^c GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive mesh refinement; Error estimation; Penalty constraints; Penalty method; Smoothing technique; Stress recovery

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINT THEORY; DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); ERROR ANALYSIS; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; STRESS ANALYSIS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT; STRESS RECOVERY;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 0033115739     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0207(19990410)44:10<1527::AID-NME497>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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