Umbrella spherical integration: A stable meshless method for non-linear solids

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 69, Issue 13, 2007, Pages 2807-2847

  Kucherov, L ^a   Tadmor, E B ^a   Miller, R E ^b  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Computational mechanics; Finite deformation; Meshless methods; Multiscale modelling; Nodal integration; Stability

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTEGRATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

FINITE DEFORMATION; MESHLESS METHODS; NODAL INTEGRATION;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS;

BOUNDARY CONDITIONS; COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS; CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; INTEGRATION; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

EID: 33947644319     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.1871     Document Type: Article

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