An exact zooming method (Q1062796)

This paper presents an efficient and exact formulation for finding stress concentration factors using a zooming analysis. A favourable characteristic of this method is its ability to perform a zooming analysis with computations taking place only in the zooming area under consideration with no need to treat the region outside the zooming area. At the final zooming step, the flexibility of a limited zooming area is determined for all nodes, including the new nodes created in the zooming processes as well as those of the original system before zooming.