On the essence and the evaluation of the shape functions for the smoothed finite element method (SFEM)

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 77, Issue 13, 2009, Pages 1863-1869

  Liu, G R ^a,b   Nguyen Thoi, T ^a,c   Nguyen Xuan, H ^b,c   Dai, K Y ^d   Lam, K Y ^e  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b SINGAPORE MIT ALLIANCE   (Singapore)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Viet Nam)

^d INTECSEA   (Canada)

^e NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SHAPE FUNCTIONS; SMOOTHED FINITE ELEMENT METHODS;

FUNCTION EVALUATION; NUMERICAL METHODS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 64049118985     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2587     Document Type: Article

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