A partition of unity-based 'FE-meshfree' QUAD4 element for geometric non-linear analysis

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 82, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1574-1608

  Rajendran, S ^a   Zhang, B R ^a   Liew, K M ^b  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

FE meshfree; Finite element; Geometric non linear analysis; Meshless; Partition of unity; Quadrilateral element

Indexed keywords

MESH GENERATION;

FE-MESHFREE; GEOMETRIC NON-LINEAR; MESHLESS; PARTITION OF UNITY; QUADRILATERAL ELEMENTS;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77952380535     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2820     Document Type: Article

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