High-Performance 3D hybrid/mixed, and simple 3D voronoi cell finite elements, for macro- & micro-mechanical modeling of solids,without using multi-field variational principles

CMES - Computer Modeling in Engineering and Sciences

Volumn 84, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 41-97

  Bishay, P L ^a   Atluri, S N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Collocation; Efficiency; Functionally graded materials; Higher order; Hybrid Mixed finite elements; Invariance; Least square; Locking; Radial basis functions; Three dimensional finite elements; Voronoi cells; Wachspress Barycentric coordinates

Indexed keywords

BARYCENTRIC COORDINATES; COLLOCATION; HIGHER ORDER; HYBRID/MIXED FINITE ELEMENT; LEAST SQUARE; LOCKING; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTIONS; THREE DIMENSIONAL FINITE ELEMENTS; VORONOI CELL;

BRICK; CELLS; COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY; CYTOLOGY; EFFICIENCY; EXPERIMENTS; FUNCTIONALLY GRADED MATERIALS; INVARIANCE; LEAST SQUARES APPROXIMATIONS; RADIAL BASIS FUNCTION NETWORKS; VARIATIONAL TECHNIQUES;

THREE DIMENSIONAL;

EID: 84862643574     PISSN: 15261492     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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