The upper bound property for solid mechanics of the linearly conforming radial point interpolation method (LC-RPIM)

International Journal of Computational Methods

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 521-541

  Zhang, G Y ^a,b   Liu, G R ^b,c   Nguyen, T T ^a,b   Song, C X ^a,b   Han, X ^c   Zhong, Z H ^c   Li, G Y ^c  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

^c HUNAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Elasticity; Error bound; Meshfree methods; Point interpolation method; Radial basis functions; Strain smoothing

Indexed keywords

ELASTICITY; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; INTERPOLATION; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS;

ERROR BOUND; MESHFREE METHODS; POINT INTERPOLATION METHOD; STRAIN SMOOTHING;

COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS;

EID: 34948865331     PISSN: 02198762     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1142/S0219876207001308     Document Type: Article

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