A cell-based smoothed finite element method for kinematic limit analysis

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Volumn 83, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1651-1674

  Le, Canh V ^a   Nguyen Xuan, H ^b,f   Askes, H ^a   Bordas, Stéphane P A ^c,d   Rabczuk, T ^e   Nguyen Vinh, H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NATURAL SCIENCES   (Viet Nam)

^c CARDIFF UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d ROYAL ACADEMY OF ENGINEERING   (United Kingdom)

^e BAUHAUS UNIVERSITY WEIMAR   (Germany)

^f TON DUC THANG UNIVERSITY   (Viet Nam)

Author keywords

A sum of norms; CS FEM; Limit analysis; Second order cone programming; Strain smoothing

Indexed keywords

3-D PROBLEMS; A SUM OF NORMS; CELL-BASED; COMPUTATIONAL EFFORT; CS-FEM; EFFICIENT METHOD; EUCLIDEAN NORM; FINITE ELEMENT; LIMIT ANALYSIS; NONSMOOTH OPTIMIZATION; NUMERICAL PROCEDURES; OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; PLANE STRAIN PROBLEM; PLANE STRESS; QUADRATIC FORM; SECOND-ORDER CONE PROGRAMMING; SMOOTHED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; SMOOTHING TECHNIQUES; VOLUMETRIC LOCKING; VON MISES CRITERION; YIELD CRITERIA;

KINEMATICS; NUMBER THEORY; OPTIMIZATION;

FINITE ELEMENT METHOD;

EID: 77954957167     PISSN: 00295981     EISSN: 10970207     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/nme.2897     Document Type: Article

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