Mastering Calculations in Linear and Nonlinear Mechanics

• Main Authors: Ladevèze, Pierre (Author), Pelle, Jean-Pierre (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Ling, Frederick F. (Editor), Gloyna, Ernest F. (Editor), Hart, William Howard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2005.
• Series: Mechanical Engineering Series,
• Subjects: Engineering.; Computational intelligence.; Structural mechanics.; Mechanical engineering.; Mechanical Engineering.; Computational Intelligence.; Structural Mechanics.

Mastering Calculations in Linear and Nonlinear Mechanics is concerned with the management of calculations in linear and nonlinear mechanics. In the last twenty years or so this constant preoccupation in industry as well as in research has gone through a revolution with the advent of truly quantitati...

Table of Contents:

• The notion of quality of a finite element solution
• The constitutive relation error method for linear problems
• Other methods for linear problems
• Principles of the comparison of the various estimators in the linear case
• Mesh adaptation for linear problems
• The constitutive relation error method for nonlinear evolution problems
• The constitutive relation error method in dynamics
• Techniques for constructing admissible fields
• Estimation of local errors.