A novel FEM by scaling the gradient of strains with factor \(\alpha\) (\(\alpha\)FEM)

DOI10.1007/s00466-008-0311-1zbMath1162.74469OpenAlexW2051878732WikidataQ57559258 ScholiaQ57559258MaRDI QIDQ1021144

K. Y. Lam, Trung Nguyen-Thoi, Gui-Rong Liu

Publication date: 8 June 2009

Published in: Computational Mechanics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00466-008-0311-1

zbMATH Keywords

finite element method (FEM)alpha finite element method (\(\alpha\)FEM)exact-\(\alpha\) approachsmall-\(\alpha\) approachzero-\(\alpha\) approach

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Finite element methods applied to problems in solid mechanics (74S05)

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