Gangan, Prathap and Vinayak, RU (1996) Best Fit stress Performance of a High order beam element. Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 12 . pp. 229-234. ISSN 1552-485X
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Abstract
It is known that finite elements try to capture stresses within each discretized local region in a 'best-fit' sense. In the paper we examine the performance of a beam element based on a higher-order shear deformation theory and show that the best-fit paradigm accounts for the manner in which through-thethickness displacement and stresses are modelled. An a priori prediction derived from the paradigm is confirmed by a carefully chosen numerical experiment. This provides a measure of the quality of approximation as well as another 'falsification' of the best-fit paradigm.
| Item Type: | Journal Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | higher-order beam element; best-fit stress prediction; a priori error analysis |
| Subjects: | ENGINEERING > Communications and Radar |
| Division/Department: | Structures Division, Structures Division |
| Depositing User: | Ms Indrani V |
| Date Deposited: | 09 Oct 2012 10:10 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Oct 2012 10:10 |
| URI: | http://nal-ir.nal.res.in/id/eprint/11067 |
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