An extended Galerkin weak form and a point interpolation method with continuous strain field and superconvergence using triangular mesh

Computational Mechanics

Volumn 43, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 651-673

  Liu, G R ^a,b   Xu, X ^c   Zhang, G Y ^b   Gu, Y T ^d  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

^c JILIN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Finite element method; Meshfree methods; Point interpolation method; Solution bound; Superconvergence; X Galerkin weak form

Indexed keywords

GALERKIN METHODS; INTERPOLATION; MESH GENERATION; STRAIN; STRAIN ENERGY;

MESH-FREE METHOD; POINT INTERPOLATION METHOD; SOLUTION BOUND; SUPER-CONVERGENCE; WEAK FORM;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 58149484013     PISSN: 01787675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00466-008-0336-5     Document Type: Article

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