Adaptive Finite Elements in Linear and Nonlinear Solid and Structural Mechanics

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Stein, Erwin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Vienna : Springer Vienna, 2005.
• Series: CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences, Courses and Lectures ; 416
• Subjects: Engineering.; Numerical analysis.; Computational intelligence.; Computational Intelligence.; Numerical Analysis.

This course with 6 lecturers intends to present a systematic survey of recent re­ search results of well-known scientists on error-controlled adaptive finite element methods in solid and structural mechanics with emphasis to problem-dependent concepts for adaptivity, error analysis as well as h- and...

Table of Contents:

• Duality Techniques for Error Estimation and Mesh Adaptation in Finite Element Methods
• Hierarchical Model and Solution Adaptivity of Thin-walled Structures by the Finite-Elements-Method
• Three Lectures on Error Estimation and Adaptivity
• Hierarchic Modelling in Elasticity by generalized p- and hp-FEM
• Constitutive Relation Error Estimators and Adaptivity in Structural Engineering
• Adaptive Methods for Contact Problems.