Automatic metric advancing front triangulation over curved surfaces

Engineering Computations (Swansea, Wales)

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 48-74

  Lee, C K ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

3D; Mapping; Mesh generation

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE ALGORITHMS; CRACKS; ITERATIVE METHODS; METRIC SYSTEM; SHELLS (STRUCTURES); SURFACES; TENSORS; TRIANGULATION;

AUTOMATIC MESH GENERATOR; CURVED SURFACES; MESH GENERATION; METRIC TRIANGULATION KERNEL; SURFACE BRANCHES;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 0033715045     PISSN: 02644401     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/02644400010308080     Document Type: Article

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