Error estimates for a lumped stress method for plane elastic problems

Mechanics of Advanced Materials and Structures

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 309-320

  Fraternali, Fernando ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALERNO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Convergence analysis; Discrete force networks; Discrete continuum approximations; Error estimates; Mixed methods; Plane elasticity; Stress approaches

Indexed keywords

CONVERGENCE OF NUMERICAL METHODS; ELASTICITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; TRUSSES;

ANISOTROPIC ELASTICITY; CONVERGENCE ANALYSIS; DISCRETE CONTINUUM APPROXIMATION; DISCRETE FORCE NETWORKS; LUMPED STRESS METHOD (LSM); PLANE ELASTICITY; STRESS FUNCTIONS;

STRESS ANALYSIS;

EID: 34248597674     PISSN: 15376494     EISSN: 15376532     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15376490600845587     Document Type: Article

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